The song featured a sample from the Sony-owned 1986 song “Reflections” by Japanese composer Toshifumi Hinata, and while “90mh” garnered more than 100 million Spotify streams and was featured in over ...

MBW pointed to another case, a Sony Music lawsuit against artist Trefuego involving a sped-up sample of a track in its catalogue, where distributor DistroKid was not a co-defendant but “had to pay a ...

Pittman also ordered Trefuego to pay ongoing royalties, including a 50% cut of publishing revenue and a 20% cut of recording revenue, and to repay $2,230 in legal costs incurred by Sony.

Trefuego was sued for using a “blatant” sample from a Japanese instrumental song that was released in 1986. A TikTok rapper who was sued in 2021 by Sony Music was ordered to pay the music ...

Sony Music Entertainment Inc. won $802,997 in damages against the rapper Trefuego, who unlawfully sampled the 1986 song “Reflections” to create a track that went viral on the social media platform ...

The company then filed a lawsuit accusing Trefuego – real name Dantreal Daevon Clark-Rainbolt – of “the flagrant and deliberate infringement” of the 1986 track Reflections, released by ...

Sony Music has been awarded more than $800,000 after a TikToker infringed its copyright. The music industry giant issued a strict copyright takedown notice on the song 90mph by Arizona-based artist ...

Trefuego did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment, and Sony declined to comment.The news was first reported by Billboard.. In total, Sony was awarded nearly $803,000 ...

Sony Music’s lawsuit accused Trefuego, within 90mh, of “the flagrant and deliberate infringement” of both the sound recording and underlying composition in the 1986 track Reflections, released by ...