Lawsuit Over Kanye West’s King Crimson Sample Settled
A lawsuit from 2022 involving King Crimson and Kanye West has finally been settled.Two years ago, Declan Colgan Music Ltd (DCM) sued Universal Music Group (UMG) for underpaid streaming royalties from Kanye West's 2010 song, "Power," which samples King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." (DCM owns the mechanical rights to Crimson's 1969 song.)Back in 2010, DCM alleged that West did not properly license "21st Century Schizoid Man" before uploading his own song to YouTube and […]
