New York City-based Tuff City Records fired off the multifaceted complaint yesterday, naming as defendants not only Bakar, but Resnik Music Group, Sony Music UK, its Black Butter Records imprint, and others yet.
As some already know, the nearly six-year-old “Hell N Back” is still riding a wave of commercial momentum – including on TikTok, where it’s featured in millions of clips. Beyond the short-form app, the track (which Summer Walker remixed in 2023) is said to have appeared in a trailer for Disney’s Elemental and on American Idol.
Overall, the company owns and administers “tens of thousands of musical recordings and compositions,” per the suit. And as the filing party tells the story, that pile of IP includes a 1967 song entitled (ironically enough) “I Caught You in a Lie.”
As laid out in the action, multiple years and agreements later, full ownership of the recording (released by Robert Parker) and the composition (penned by Lee Diamond) ultimately wound up with Tuff City.
That’s a decidedly important point for the plaintiff, which believes that “Hell N Back” and its remix sample “the entire...
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