He's got 99 problems and an 'oh' ain't one! Find out what crazy claim someone tried to make against Jay...
A lawsuit claiming that Jay-Z and his record companies violated copyright by sampling a single 'oh' on the 2009 record 'Run This Town', has been dismissed by a US judge.
TufAmerica claimed the single syllable came from an older recording called 'Hook & Sling Part 1'. According to Billboard, Judge Kaplan said: "The word 'oh' is a single and commonplace word."
"Standing alone, it likely is not deserving of copyright protection... As this motion may be resolved on other grounds, however, the Court need not decide whether the word 'oh,' as it appears in the Composition, is protectable," he wrote.
The judge goes on to add that Jay Z's song is not similar to the prior song in any way, ultimately reducing the significance of the "oh". "Were the Court to find 'oh' quantitatively significant to 'Hook & Sling Part I' or to Eddie Bo's performance thereof, it in effect would read the quantitative significance element out of the substantial similarity test. This the Court will not do," he wrote.
"The fact of the matter is that the samples appear only faintly in the background of 'Run This Town' and are, at best, only barely perceptible to the average listener."
Jay Z " Run This Town" Video
The rapper has had a drama filled week when it comes to court rulings, as it was also decided that he wouldn't be forced to give a deposition in a legal battle over whether he stole the logo for his record label.
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