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 | | However, that fee went to ECM Records, who owned the rights to the recording; Newton's suit claimed that the trio screwed him over by not paying a separate fee directly to him for his part in writing the piece. |
 | | Newton was shot down in 2003 by San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who dismissed the case on the grounds that the short segment was not distinguishable as Newton's work by the average listener. |
 | | Moreover, ironically, they said that Newton's skill and finesse in playing his own song meant that the primary value in the sample lay in the particular recording Newton made (which the Beasties bought the rights to fair and square) and not in the notes-on-paper "underlying composition" that Newton was suing over. |
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