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"A Delaware company has hit Madonna and her label WB Records with a lawsuit claiming the pop star stole portions of one of their songs for her hit 1990 hit &amp;quot;Vogue,&amp;quot; reports E!. Pointing to a song called &amp;quot;Love Break,&amp;quot; released around 1977, VMG claims, &amp;quot;The portions of &amp;apos;Love Break,&amp;apos; which have been copied into &amp;apos;Vogue&amp;apos; and all its various &amp;apos;mixes,&amp;apos; &amp;apos;remixes,&amp;apos; videos, YouTube versions, etc., are numerous but intentionally hidden. The horn and strings in &amp;apos;Vogue&amp;apos; are intentionally sampled from &amp;apos;Love Break&amp;apos; throughout.&amp;quot;\r\nThe company also says music producer Richard &amp;quot;Shep&amp;quot; Pettibone facilitated the process by altering the samples after he was originally hired by VMG to remix &amp;quot;Love Break,&amp;quot; later working on &amp;quot;Vogue.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The unauthorized sampling was deliberately hidden by [Madonna] within &amp;apos;Vogue&amp;apos; so as to avoid detection. It was only when VMG specifically looked for the sample, with the technology available to it in 2011, that the sampling could be confirmed,&amp;quot; VMG said.\r\nVMG claims they served WB Records with a copyright infringement notice in July 2011 and February 2012 and are seeking damages on top of &amp;quot;[Madonna&amp;apos;s] profits that are attributable to the copyrighted material.&amp;quot; Representatives for Madonna have yet to comment."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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