Donna Summer time property sues Ye and Ty Dolla $ign, saying they illegally used 'I Really feel Love'

The property of Donna Summer time sued Ye and Ty Dolla $ign on Tuesday for what its attorneys say is the “shamelessly” unlawful use of her 1977 music “I Really feel Love” of their collaboration “Good (Don’t Die).”

The copyright infringement lawsuit was filed in federal courtroom in Los Angeles by Summer time’s husband Bruce Sudano in his capability as executor of the property of the singer-songwriter and “Disco Queen,” who died in 2012.

The swimsuit alleges that when representatives of Ye, previously Kanye West, sought permission to be used of the music they had been rejected as a result of the Summer time property “wished no affiliation with West’s controversial historical past.”

The swimsuit contends that the album as an alternative “shamelessly” consists of re-recorded components of the music that had been “immediately recognizable.”

“Within the face of this rejection,” the swimsuit says, “defendants arrogantly and unilaterally determined they might merely steal ‘I Really feel Love’ and use it with out permission.”

An e mail looking for remark from representatives for Ye was not instantly returned.

“I Really feel Love,” co-written by Summer time, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, is a vastly influential observe off Summer time’s album “I Bear in mind Yesterday” that’s thought-about one of many first cases of digital dance music. The idea album had songs representing completely different a long time. “I Really feel Love,” with Summer time’s ecstatic moans and minimalist lyrics, was meant to symbolize the longer term.

“Good (Don’t Die)” was launched February 10 on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative album, “About Vultures 1.” The lawsuit names as defendants each artists and Ye’s document label Yeezy.

The property first publicly alleged the copyright violation in an Instagram put up on the official Summer time account on the day of the album’s launch.

It seeks a decide’s injunction stopping any additional circulation of the music, and cash damages to be decided at trial.

The music doesn’t at the moment seem on the model of the album accessible on Spotify and different streaming companies.