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Ready to Die Subject of Infringement Case
Monday, January 2, 2006
By: Michael Ivey
 Bad Boy Records, its’ parent company Universal, and the estate of Christopher “Biggie” Wallace are being sued by two publishing companies for samples used on Biggie’s debut album “Ready to Die”. An attorney representing Bridgeport Music Inc. and Westbound Records says “they included the music in their music and pawned it off as one of their own”, referring to samples used in the records’ title track “Ready to Die”, “Gimmie the Loot” and “Machine Gun Funk”.
The publishing houses claim Bad Boy/Universal never got permission from them to use parts of the Ohio Players’ “Singing in the Morning” and the Horny Horns’ “Up for the Downstroke” respectively. Last week attorneys for both sides appeared before U.S. District Court Magistrate Joe Brown because of a defense motion to dismiss certain legal claims before trial, which is scheduled to begin this March in Nashville, TN.
Warner Music Group label Atlantic records recently released “Notorious Big Duets: The Final Chapter”, the second post-mortem Biggie release (“Born Again” ’99) and his fourth overall.
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