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Appeals court confirms Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s win in sample case

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The Fifth Circuit appeals court in the US has upheld a ruling in favour of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis over allegations that they used uncleared samples in their 2012 hit ‘Thrift Shop’.

The appeals court also upheld a separate judgement that the claimant in the case, jazz artist Paul Batiste, should cover some of the duo’s legal costs.Batiste sued Macklemore and Lewis in 2017 claiming that both ‘Thrift Shop’ and another track, ‘Neon Cathedral’, stole beats and horn melodies from his songs ‘Hip Jazz’ and ‘World Of Blues’, which date from 1997 and 2000 respectively.The lawsuit was dismissed last year with the lower court concluding that Batiste had failed to demonstrate either that Macklemore and Lewis had had access to his earlier songs, or.

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