Anjunabeats just released their official statement about Will.i.am’s recent sampling theft of Arty and Mat Zo’s Rebound. Will.i.am had recently made come statements that he took care of everything he needed to, but that seemed to not sit right with the trance label. Here’s the official statement, and we’ll keep you updated with any legal action.
Anjunabeats is the record label behind Arty and Mat Zo and owns the master recording rights to their collaboration “Rebound.” Mat Zo and Arty have been important members of the Anjunabeats family for a number of years and “Rebound” was one of the label’s most popular releases in 2011.As has been widely reported, a large section of “Rebound” was sampled onWill.i.am‘s track “Let’s Go featuring Chris Brown” and this took place without the permission of Anjunabeats or Arty & Mat Zo.Although Arty (but not Mat Zo) was credited in the sleeve notes, this is not the same as obtaining permission. To present someone else’s work as your own, you need to seek permission, agree terms and file paperwork, which has not happened in this case.We’ve remained silent on this issue until now but as a record label it is our obligation to protect our artists’ interests and we felt it was necessary to respond to some of the inaccuracies that have been reported following Will.i.am‘s recent comments to Associated Press.
for will’s reaction to this, just look at the album cover.
yes Anjunabeats round of applause! This annoys me. will.i.am is an asshole.
clear as the sky.
as much as I despise will.i.am’s lack of originality and hope that he pays the price for his stupidity – anjunabeats have been in a similar boat for a number of years. they have released quite a few “copy-paste” rehashes within their own label that would constitute copyright infringement (compare N2O – North Pole with A&B – Anjunabeach, there are also a few more..). obviously they were released on the same label so in a legal sense there isn’t really any infringement – but you’d expect the label to keep its own originality.
I think William should be getting more heat for his music being potentially life-threatening rather than his theft ;).
ohh joy
hopefully he doesnt steal the sky too
He shouldn’t of mess with the TranceFamily.
wili.i.suck got bitten by dog 😛 😀
the whole point is that will.i.am DID NOT HAVE PERMISSION. Obviously they had permission here. It’s not just that he USED THE BEAT, he used it, without legal consent from anyone involved in making of that beat originally.
wrong, you have it backwards… Anjuna Beach came out before North Pole…. N20 also did a remix of Anjuna Beach…. derp
amen man
Anjunabeats is not going to sue. They are too classy. They didn’t even want to say anything cuz they feel it is petty but they had to watch Mat Zo’s back.
After SFX started buying out the entire edm industry, the quality of music has gone down. Because now what matters most is not talent, but ticket sales. fuck this system and corporate greed, we will revolt against this billion dollar takeover of EDM. If we do nothing, please don’t be surprised when more will.i.ams and flo ridas continue to destroy the music that we all love. Pasquale better not sell out to them, and fuck beatport for doing so… #WESTCOASTEDM
couldn’t have said it better 🙂
I wonder How much Dick Sucking was involved.
I was waiting for this. Bout damn time!
Such an assclown!
This^
money, that’s what its all about.
Will.Im.NOT
Oh also please don’t put a fuckin hashtag in your album title.
Hope the whole world can see will.i.am is a worthlesss piece of shit (not once did he admit to using the samples without proper permission, which WAS the case) He is acting like he is the victim, and he seems to feel sorry for himself, the only word that comes to mind is PATHETIC. If you give money to a thief you are supporting his thievery. Most unprofessional mainstream artist I have seen in all my life and this has been the case since the first song I ever heard from him. How do idiots like this become famous in the first place?
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha he iz a fcukin douchebag
ha ha ha ha ha ha fo realio will i am iz a fcukin dick head
You are spouting shit – if you don’t even know where he came from you have no business posting here. I don’t agree with what he did either, but Black Eyed Peas had some pretty cool music when they started. That’s how he became famous. Next time do some research before you start mouthing off.
yes and it seems like they made him GAG really HArd on that.
Cosmo Stumpf I know he is from Black Eyed Peas (no shit), I don’t like any of their music, production quality has always sounded low. He apparently made all their songs using only a interface and laptop on their tour bus after where is the love became big. Also remember with black eyed peas the whole group had input into their music, hence it being better than Will.I.Am’s trash shit.
lmao!!!!
51% of insomniac/edc was sold to Live Nation for $50M. Hit the press yesterday. The EDM market is now controlled by SFX and Live Nation.
Dude, North Pole sounds nothing like Anjunabeach.
The similarities are probably so subtle, I don’t think the average listener would listen to the two and think that one was a blatant and complete rip off of the other.
Jeromi M. Hill do you even listen to music released under anjuna? north pole was released a number of years prior to anjunabeach, even though this is completely irrelevant to my point.
He looks like a newt..
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