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By Jay-Jay FeeneyAn American DJ called Orrin Lynn Tolliver, Jr. has been awarded nearly $1.2 million by a jury after his song was sampled by the Black Eyed Peas in My Humps without his permission.Orrin recorded his track I Need A Freak at his former collaborator James McCants' studio in the 1980s. James McCants went on to register the song with Broadcast Music Incorporated, promising Orrin 75 per cent of the royalties and crediting him as the songwriter.James sold the sample to the Black Eyed Peas but never paid Orrin any money, so a judge ruled he pay up.
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