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Ye Settles With Donna Summer’s Estate to End Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Vultures 1’ Song

Ye (formerly Kanye West) reached a settlement with Donna Summer's estate to end a lawsuit over his use of her “I Feel Love” in his “Good (Don’t Die).”

Ye(formerly Kanye West) has finalized a settlement with the estate of Donna Summer to resolve a copyright lawsuit that accused him of “shamelessly” using her 1977 hit “I Feel Love” without permission in his song “Good (Don’t Die).” The estate claims the songs were so similar that fans and critics “instantly recognized” his track as a “blatant rip-off.” The lawsuit also named album collaborator Ty Dolla $ign( Tyrone William Griffin Jr.) as a defendant. Before that, West and Pusha T were sued in 2019 for sampling George Jackson‘s “I Can’t Do Without You” on the track “Come Back Baby.” That same year, he was sued for allegedly using an audio snippet of a young girl praying in his 2016 song “Ultralight Beam.” Further back, West was hit with similar cases over allegedly unlicensed samples used in “New Slaves,” “Bound 2” and “My Joy.”

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