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"A US federal judge has found that Shakira&amp;#039;s hit &amp;#039;Loca&amp;#039; breached copyright laws. The Spanish-language version of &amp;#039;Loca&amp;#039; - which featured Dominican rapper Edward Edwin Bello Pou, better known as El Cata - was released as a single in 2010 and sold over five million copies.  An English-language version of the song was also recorded with Dizzee Rascal, but was &amp;quot;not offered into evidence&amp;quot;, according to BBC News. Judge Alvin Hellerstein said that &amp;#039;Loca&amp;#039; indirectly infringed the copyright of a song by Dominican singer Ramon Arias Vazquez. He ruled that while &amp;#039;Loca&amp;#039; was based on an earlier version of a song by El Cata, that song had copied Arias Vasquez&amp;#039;s song &amp;#039;Loca con su Tiguere&amp;#039;. He concluded on Tuesday (August 19): &amp;quot;There is no dispute that Shakira&amp;#039;s version of the song was based on Bello&amp;#039;s version. Accordingly, I find that, since Bello had copied Arias, whoever wrote Shakira&amp;#039;s version of the song also indirectly copied Arias.&amp;quot; Damages to be paid to the plaintiff, Mayimba Music, have yet to be determined. Watch the music video for &amp;#039;Loca&amp;#039; featuring El Cata below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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