{"id":62850,"date":"2015-10-14T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62850"},"modified":"2016-04-02T23:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:32:59","slug":"jay-z-tells-jury-he-believes-he-has-license-for-egyptian-music-used-in-his-hit-big-pimpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/14\/jay-z-tells-jury-he-believes-he-has-license-for-egyptian-music-used-in-his-hit-big-pimpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Z tells jury he believes he has license for Egyptian music used in his hit \u201cBig Pimpin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62851\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/24920_383204544205_5570943_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62851\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/24920_383204544205_5570943_n.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Z (Photo from Jay Z's official Facebook page)\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/24920_383204544205_5570943_n.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/24920_383204544205_5570943_n-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Z (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JayZ\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Z&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Jay Z says he believes he has a valid license to use the Arabic music featured on his 1999 hit \u201cBig Pimpin\u2019\u201d that is now the subject of a copyright infringement trial.<\/p>\n<p>The rap superstar told a federal jury on Wednesday that he has never asked music producer Timbaland about the origins of the music, which includes elements of the 1957 Egyptian hit song \u201cKhosara Khosara.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, whose real name is Shawn Carter, says his belief that he has valid rights to the music is supported by the liner notes in a CD that contains the song, which credit \u201cKhosara Khosara.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jay Z and Timbaland are being sued by the heirs of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi, who say the artists don\u2019t have the rights to include \u201cKhosara Khosara\u201d on \u201cBig Pimpin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Jay Z says he believes he has a valid license to use the Arabic music featured on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":62851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-62850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62850","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}