Adele Accused of Plagiarizing Kurdish Singer Ahmet Kaya

3. The Black Eyed Peas vs. Orrin Lynn Tolliver

A disc jockey from Ohio, Orrin Lynn Tolliver, Jr. sued The Black Eyed Peas for using his song “I Need a Freak” as a sample for “My Humps.” Jury ordered James McCants, in whose studio the original song was recorded and who allowed the sampling, to pay around $1.2 million for unearned profits and copyright infringement damages.

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