Timbaland rips off song from Finnish musician?
Does Producer Timbaland rip off a song from Finnish musician Janne Suni..?
Here’s more info from pHinnWeb…
It is now claimed that Janne Suni a.k.a. Tempest a.k.a. Damage, a Finnish demoscene musician/graphic artist (who has also done cover art for Jyväskylä’s Rikos Records), has had ‘Acid Jazzed Evening’, one of his tracks, blatantly ripped by the well-known hip-hop/R&B producer Timbaland on Nelly Furtado’s song ‘Do It’ for her album Loose.
The said track is from a Commodore 64 conversion of an Amiga .mod file made by the Finnish demoscener Janne Suni. The track was entered into a music competition at Assembly 2000, a demo party held in Helsinki, Finland in the year 2000. Tempest’s entry ‘Acid Jazzed Evening’, a 4-channel Amiga .mod won first place in the “Oldskool Music” competition. According to Scene.org the song was uploaded to their servers in 2000, long before the release of the song by Furtado. A video which claims to show proof of the theft was posted to YouTube on January 12, 2007. It’s yet unknown whether Janne Suni will ever be able take the case to the court, the prospects of winning a court case against a major record label-backed international celebrity artist being very slight; not to talk about any astronomical expenses involved in losing a case like that.
Hat Tip to Giac for the link!




