{"id":2659,"date":"2003-02-05T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/05\/those-cheats\/"},"modified":"2003-02-05T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T10:30:31","slug":"those-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200302\/those-cheats\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Cheats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>A famed Indian composer has ?on a court order barring sales of a hip-hop hit he claims borrowed heavily and without credit from one of his songs in an act of &#8220;cultural imperialism.&#8221;<br \/>A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday issued an order prohibiting further sales of the song &#8220;Addictive&#8221; by Truth Hurts unless and until composer<b> Bappi Lahiri<\/b> is listed on the song&#8217;s credits, Anthony Kornarens, an attorney for Lahiri told Reuters. <\/font><\/cite>  (<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.myway.com\/article\/id\/300058|entertainment|02-03-2003::21:03|reuters.html\" class = \"source\">My Way &#8211; Entertainment<\/a>   via  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaush.com\/archives\/000278.html#000278\" class = \"source\">Kaush<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>He has finally got justice. Till now the plagiarizers used to copy from him and <i>backdate<\/i> their work to cover their tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A famed Indian composer has ?on a court order barring sales of a hip-hop hit he claims borrowed heavily and without credit from one of his songs in an act of &#8220;cultural imperialism.&#8221;A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday issued an order prohibiting further sales of the song &#8220;Addictive&#8221; by Truth Hurts unless and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}