{"id":627476,"date":"2018-06-03T04:03:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/06\/03\/jay-z-defeats-copyright-claims-over-big-pimpin\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T04:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T04:03:28","slug":"jay-z-defeats-copyright-claims-over-big-pimpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/06\/03\/jay-z-defeats-copyright-claims-over-big-pimpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z defeats copyright claims over 'Big Pimpin''"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A US court has upheld a <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2015\/10\/22\/hisham-ramez-out-ex-nbe-chief-tarek-amer-in-as-governor-of-central-bank-of-egypt\/\"><strong>2015 ruling<\/strong><\/a><strong> clearing American rapper Jay Z of copyright infringement for sampling Baligh Hamdi\u2019s <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tNZ7RZd0nD0\"><strong>Khosara Khosara<\/strong><\/a>, which was originally written for Abdel Halim Hafez, for his 1999 hit Big Pimpin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-music-jayz\/jay-z-defeats-copyright-claims-over-big-pimpin-idUSKCN1IW2QZ\">Reuters reports<\/a>. 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