Timbaland accused of stealing from a Finnish musician
 

Not sure if you've heard about it, but it looks pretty nasty.

from Wikipedia:
full article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Ti...oversy#_note-5

Youtube comparison of Do It and the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KX7SkDe4Q <- this video got almost 300,000 hits already.
Youtube comparison of the original and the ringtone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV2fTEeP6GM

It's a real shame since I liked Nelly's "Do It" a lot, I think it's one of the best tracks on the album "Loose" and I was waiting eagerly for it to become a single and recieve a video. As for the issue itself, I think it's not just "sampling", like many people on the internet respond to the controversy, becouse Timbaland didn't credit or paid royalties to the original author. Yes, there are millions of unauthorized samples out there that people can pick to their compositions, but - even if you don't know who made it, if you conciously decide to use it without bothering to find the author to pay him a credit, you risk that you might get cought one day.

Now, Timbaland should just pay proper royalties to the author, that's my opinion. He didn't know him back when he was making the track, but now he knows who the author is. He got cought. No matter how much struggle would he have to go through to find the author back then, he should have done it - or take the risk of unauthorised use. As we see, he took the easier path.

I'm not for seeing any kind of conflict between Timbaland and Janne Suni, they should settle the case with Timbaland paying him at least a written and spoken credit and an apology.

Well, he should now pay royalties and not cause a fight or sue or anything. I think he didn't know who to credit in the first place. But it would have been better for his image if he credited the author by even adding "unknown" in the songwriting credits or whatever.

He should just pay cause if he makes a fuss out of it, it will completely destroy his credibility.

I heard about this , it got big headlines on the tabloids here the other day.

I think it's really embarrasing for timbalands reputation if this grows to a big story in the US media too , seeing how his production talent has gotten him a lot of praise recently with Nellys & Justins excellent albums.

Yeah, and also supposedly "My Love" was also somewhat plagiarized from some other obscure musician.

yes I discovered a steal to Timbaland with banjo to this song: at 0:34min to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JolbRVX3sk4
with he song: sexy back > justin timberlake

what do you think? stollen or not?

Wow, that's slightly shocking. I wouldn't have expected that. Do It is a great song, but the original composer definitely needs to be credited. I can't believe that Timbaland would steal music without crediting. Not like I know the guy, but such a renowned producer doing something like that is pretty bad.

It happens so much these days or is said to happen so much these days (I mean, it seems nowadays anyone can make these claims) I never know when to believe it. I'll still enjoy the songs, but... credit's due, Timbo.

wow. How horrible. This really makes us look so bad, omg, but hey, yay for international recognition of the talent in other countries!

im surprised.

that's a horrible thing to do XD

OMG! I swear that bloody Timbaland steal sume music sound from Utada's Exdous too. He stole Utada's reinvented digital music. Dun't know howna explain this. I think he's a bag, but i like his music, he's good!

I wish he'll bloody feature Utada on his new album! Better!

HAHAHA!!! TIMBALAND YOU'RE GOIN' DOWN! :laugh

eeek for T! I love his work (w/ Missy = Flawless!), but he needs to be careful. I remember a song he produced from years back used samples from a musician's voice w/o credit ~ The song was big too [By artist Truthhurts...ring a bell?!].

^*Cough* Off topic as it sound.

I adore your avatar. Hot stuff! (So funny to laugh at! That face!)

I don't like him all that much. He's actually annoying to me. I heard a rumor just last week about Justin Timberlake stealing some girls song which just happens to be "My Love". He basically filled in spaces with his own words in the song and kept the chorus exactly the same from my understanding. Anyway the girl has a myspace page and everybodys saying she should sue. I don't own or have listened to JTs album but I know Timbaland produced that one too. So if that rumor is true the suing charges would go to whoever wrote his version of the song and whoever composed the music for it.

But yeah, that's all I know about what I just typed. Now this other thing...he has to be copying these people because you can't just repeatedly do this OVER & OVER AGAIN and NOT be claiming the same excuse or playing the role of the innocent lamb. But I dunno, if he stole these peoples songs he's in for some hell because you just can't take a persons work and not compensate or give credit to them for it. Even if they aren't world famous.

there are so many songs in the world, and it is clearly understandable that a song may be similar to another in some respects.

I wouldn't doubt that.

too bad for timbaland, i liked the original better. sounds similar though. eh...but why would he be dumb enough to intentionally rip someone else off? its not like he would honestly expect it to fly, at least i hope he wouldn't be that naive.

Similar in some respects? Have you seen the videos? It's not similarity, the original piece is simply sampled into Nelly's song, as well as the ringtone.

I say, Timbaland is too ashame to give credit to the original composer cause people will know that he's dumb or sumething! But i still like his music and i would like him to credit to those original composer, f'bastard!

By the way, boys and girls, time to drop your pants! Look at this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbala...ts_Shock_Value

Utada might be in it, but i doubt it! Timbaland have no faith in her!

Haha.. I read about this from one forum on Finnish music site. I thought it was a winner song from last year's Assembly, but it was more old song than I thought. They was talking about that should "Tempest" bring an action against Timbaland or should they do teamwork. :P

Here's the whole original song.. if someone hasn't posted it yet.
www.limpninja.com/acidjazz/glenn_acidjazz.mp3

I think it would be cool if that kind of producer thinks that my music sounds so good that he could use it. :P ... I don't like his music though..