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Facing Sample Lawsuit, Travis Scott Says Nobody Can Own a Copyright on ‘Alright, Alright, Alright’
Travis Scott says "alright, alright, alright" can't be copyrighted in seeking to end a lawsuit accusing him of using unlicensed samples on "Utopia."
The case was filed in February by Dion Norman and Derrick Ordogne, who claim that Scott and Sony Music illegally borrowed a portion of their song “Bitches Reply” — an oft-sampled 1992 track that’s previously been used by Lil Wayne, Cardi B, Kid Cudi and others. In Monday’s response filing, Scott’s lawyers say that a repetition of a common word like “alright” in song lyrics was exactly that — too “trite” and “cliched” to meet copyright law’s basic requirements. Monday’s motion also made various other attacks on Norman and Ordogne’s lawsuit, including that they failed to show that they own the proper copyright registrations and filed the claims over “Stargazing” past the statute of limitations.
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