{"id":51760,"date":"2015-06-14T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51760"},"modified":"2015-06-14T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:56:00","slug":"pop-sensation-beyonce-sued-for-us-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/14\/pop-sensation-beyonce-sued-for-us-7-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop sensation Beyonce sued for US $7 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23459\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Beyonce-VMA-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23459\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Beyonce-VMA-2014.jpg\" alt=\"ALL HAIL QUEEN BEY (Kevin Hazur \/ www.beyonce.com)\" width=\"705\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kevin Hazur \/ www.beyonce.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Pop sensation Beyonce is being sued by a backing singer for USD 7 million after it was claimed the star had plagiarised her music to write her hit song &#8220;XO&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old star and her company Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records have been taken to court over her hit &#8220;XO&#8221; after Ahmad Lane filed a federal lawsuit claiming she had stolen the music for the track, reported Radar online.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad alleged that Beyonce&#8217;s current backing singer Chrissy Collins gave her a copy of his song &#8220;XOXO&#8221; after he passed on the track to her when the pair were working together for another artist.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Grammy Award-winner has vehemently denied the claims in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two works at issue are entirely different songs that share no lyrical or musical similarity, other than perhaps the letters X and O,&#8221; the response read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two songs are distinct from a thematic perspective.<\/p>\n<p>They have different melodic content and there is no meaningful similarity in pitch series, rhythm or rhythmic patterns, melodic development or structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Crazy In Love&#8221; hitmaker also stated that Ahmad hasn&#8217;t filed a &#8220;copyright registration&#8221; for his track and asked for the USD 7 million payment to be dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Pop sensation Beyonce is being sued by a backing singer for USD 7 million after it was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-pti-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}