Article: Federal lawsuit accuses rapper 'Birdman' in sampling artists' songs without permission, payment.(LAW & JUSTICE)(Bryan Williams)(Brief article)

Birdman faces a federal lawsuit that accuses him of sampling other artists' songs without paying licensing fees.

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The lawsuit claims the popular rapper, whose real name is Bryan Williams, owes several music-publishing companies an unspecified amount of money for using copyrighted songs without permission. The lawsuit doesn't name any of the copyrighted songs.

Williams and his brother, Ronald, co-founded Cash Money Records, which has a distribution and marketing deal with Universal Records, according to the label's Web site.

The lawsuit claims that albums by Birdman and ...

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