In the year 2002, rapper Dr. Dre and his record label Aftermath Records, Interscope Records & Universal Music released Truth Hurts Addictive. This single sold 273,000 copies in the first week. If you ever gave this track a listen, this was fused with an Indian Music sample, Resham Lagtha Hai by the world famous Lata Mangeshkar. The original track Thoda Resham Lagtha Hai was written by Bappi Lahiri. The Truth Hurts Addictive track was an overnight success. And due to this, the Indian Music industry - Saregama Music, which owned the copyrights to the Lata Mangeshkar track Thoda Resham Lagtha Hai sued Dr. Dre and its record label Afermath Records, Interscope Records & Universal Records for a $500 million for illegally sampling the track and lacing it without copyrights and illegally using it to gain personal fortune. This was a major cornerstone of Indian Music going globally huge. Overnight, music fans around the world downloaded and bought the single just for the Lata Mangeshar vocal talent. This case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount as Bappi Lahiri and Saregama Record Label won the case and halted all sales and records from the shelves. This was a major blow and embarassment to the mainstream music industry and a major win and exciting news for the Indian Music industry.
In late 2007, another similar case with big name artists The Game and Timbaland have been sued by Saregama Music for illegally using one of their tracks and copyright infringements. The company claims one of its songs has been used in The Game's song Put You On The Game which was released in 2005. This is still before the courts.
By the way, as a note to mention, Saregama Music owns almost 50 percent of all of the music recorded in the Indian Music industry. This company/record label is very big and has done justice to the Indian Music industry.
