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BEYONCE WINS APPEAL IN 'BABY BOY' LAWSUIT: Woman claimed song was similar to a demo she sent to Mathew Knowles.
*Beyonce's legal team has announced that the appeal of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against her and the co-authors of her Grammy-winning song "Baby Boy" has been shot down.
The plaintiff, Jennifer Armour, claimed that her former manager submitted demo recordings of a song to Beyonce's father/manager Mathew Knowles (President, Music World Entertainment), representatives of Beyoncé's record label Columbia Records, a division of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and others, in late February or early March 2003.
She discovered in the litigation, however, that the writing and recording of "Baby Boy" was substantially complete before Armour claimed to have submitted her demo recording, Beyonce's lawyers said in a statement.
The trial court dismissed the plaintiff's case because, the court determined, no reasonable person could conclude that the two songs sounded substantially similar to one another. The appellate court did not reach that question, but instead upheld the dismissal of the case on the grounds that "Baby Boy" was in existence before Armour allegedly submitted her demos.
In response to the appellate court's decision, Beyoncé said: "It's unfortunate that we had to endure this long legal process but I am hopeful this decision will allow all of us that were involved to finally move on."
Defendants named in the lawsuit included Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Scott Storch, Robert Waller, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Hitco Music Publishing, TVT Music, and Notting Dale Songs, all of whom were represented by Henry ("Hank") J. Fasthoff, IV of Stumpf Farrimond.
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