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" Funk singer George Clinton has begun legal proceedings against the Black Eyed Peas for copyright infringement relating to a remix of their song &amp;#039;Shut Up&amp;#039;. According to Billboard, Clinton has filed papers that suggest the band failed to gain his permission to use a sample from his 1979 track &amp;#039;(Not Just) Knee Deep&amp;#039;. The P-Funk founder claims that he rejected the group&amp;#039;s proposal to sample the song but later found out that it had already been used in a bonus track on their 2009 album The E.N.D.. Clinton began proceedings in Los Angeles on Friday and is seeking full damages of $150,000 (\u00C2\u00A394,930) along with an injunction to prevent the Black Eyed Peas continuing to distribute the remix. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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