White Stripes sued over radio sample

The White Stripes have found themselves in hot water, after a Canadian radio DJ is suing them for an unlawful use of a radio sample. The sample in question is a ten second clip from her show at the start of Jumble, Jumble off of De Stijl, the band's second album. Dominique Payette, the DJ, is looking for a $70,000 payment for 'violation of privacy' and an injuction to block the further releases of the album.

It's the 'violation of privacy' bit that gets me though. Obviously, I'm not saying that the band should have asked for permission to use a sample. But what 'privacy' is there over a ten second clip from a public radio station? What's more, the clip isn't neccessarily a high standard of audio quality. I can never really make out what is being said.

The fact that this lawsuit is being brought up a whole eight years after De Stijl is also quite something. I reckon this whole saga is going to dissolve fairly quickly, but for the time being the band, nor their management or record label have made comment yet.

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