Legal battle over Jay Z’s “Big Pimpin’” and Baligh Hamdy’s heirs centers on moral rights

Heir to Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdy, Osama Fahmy, filed a court appeal to the 2015 decision that said they lost the rights to the song “Khosara,” which was used in Jay Z’s “Big Pimpin’,” by licensing it, The Hollywood Reporter says. Fahmy’s attorney says “his client may have licensed the economic rights to ‘Khosara’ but, under Egyptian law, he could not have given up his moral rights to ‘prevent unauthorized fundamental alterations’ to the work. The story has also been picked up by Forbes.