Kanye West has been facing several copyright lawsuits over his use of music without alleged permission. The Alice Merton case was the latest that ultimately reached an out-of-court settlement.
The German-Canadian singer alleged that Ye’s representatives asked her permission to use her 2022 song, Blindside, as a sample on Gun to My Head, a track on the Vultures 2 digital deluxe edition.
Merton refused; regardless, West allegedly used the sample in the track, leading her and two German music publishers to file a copyright lawsuit.
Now, the filing said the agreement was set and the parties “anticipated filing a stipulation to dismiss the action after satisfaction of the terms of settlement.”
It is unclear what the terms of the settlement are, as they have not been publicly disclosed, but if they are not completed within 90 days, the case could be reopened.
In other news, Kim Kardashian, who had been heavily involved in the rapper’s life, believed his life might have turned out differently if his mother had been alive.
The Skims mogul even met Donda, though the encounter was brief, as she revealed in the new book Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future by Jonathan Van Meter.
But when she met Ye’s late mother, she had not yet become the Chicago rapper’s girlfriend.
“I didn’t meet her as his girlfriend — just someone who came to the event. She was so nice. She was everything to him,” Kardashian said, recalling when she met Donda at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Discussing the brief meeting, Kardashian then moved to the impact of losing Donda on her former husband.
“I’m pretty sure he’ll always be lost without her,” she said, adding a poignant assessment, “but I do think everything would be different if she were still here.”
