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GГ©raldine Guyot had a (second) wedding fit for a member of the royal family on Saturday. The ad also featured a Basquiat painting which caused some backlash for both the brand and couple.ДЇriends of Jean-Michel Basquiat said they were вЂњhorrifiedвЂќ by the вЂњcommercializationвЂќ of the anti-capitalistвЂ™s work. Cobra Team / BACKGRIDД«eyoncГ© and Jay-Z sent tongues wagging when they posed together for Tiffany & Co.вЂ™s вЂњAbout LoveвЂќ campaign with the Queen B wearing the brandвЂ™s priceless yellow Tiffany Diamond for the ad. BeyoncГ© was covered in diamonds for the extravagant wedding. His bride, GГ©raldine Guyot, is the founder of French accessory brand founder of DвЂ™EstrГ«e. and the son of luxury brand LVMHвЂ™s (MoГ«t Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE) Bernard Arnault.

This article was amended on 21 October 2015 to correct the spellings of Shawn Carter and Timothy Mosley.For those of you who donвЂ™t know, Arnault is an executive at Tiffany & Co.

GayeвЂ™s family were initially awarded $7.4m вЂ“ later reduced to $5.3m. Neither faced lawsuits.Д®arlier this year, a federal jury ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams plagiarised Marvin GayвЂ™s song Got to Give It Up in their 2013 R&B chart-topper Blurred Lines. Madonna sampled the Lebanese singer Fairuz singing Christian liturgy on Erotica, and the jagged strings in the Chemical BrothersвЂ™ 2005 song Galvanize are sampled from the Moroccan singer Najat Aatabou. Some observers argued it was an example of healthy cultural cross-pollination while others alleged exploitation.Д«ig PimpinвЂ™ is not the first song to prompt overlapping debates about intellectual property and western pop music sampling of middle eastern melodies. Lepera, Jay ZвЂ™s lawyer, denied Big PimpinвЂ™ used major elements of the song, saying much of the music was too simple to be the subject of copyright. He sang Khosara Khosara in a 1960 film titled Fata Ahlami. Hamdi is dead, as is the songвЂ™s singer, Abdel Halim Hafez, so it was Fahmy who launched the case with a legal complaint in 2007.

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The verdict ended a closely watched trial which touched on cultural sensitivities, with the lawsuit claiming the rap duo reused Khosara Khosara in an offensive way with lyrics which disrespected women and violated the composerвЂ™s moral rights under Egyptian law.

The court correctly ruled that the plaintiff had no right to bring this case and cannot pursue any claim of infringement in connection with Big PimpinвЂ™ whatsoever,вЂќ their attorney, Christine Lepera, said in a statement. вЂњWe and our clients obviously are very pleased with this decision.

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Jay Z (real name Shawn Carter) and Timbaland (real name Timothy Mosley) had testified that they paid for the hook in their song вЂ“ Jay ZвЂ™s first major hit single вЂ“ in full by paying $100,000 to EMI Music Arabia for the license in 2001. вЂњWe think itвЂ™s completely wrong, and weвЂ™ll appeal.вЂќ In light of that decision, it will not be necessary to submit to the jury whether Big PimpinвЂ™ infringed Khosara Khosara,вЂќ she said.ДЇahmyвЂ™s attorney, Pete Ross, vowed to fight the ruling. вЂњFahmy lacked standing to pursue his claim.

The judge ruled that Egyptian law did not apply and that the case should not go to a jury. Fahmy had argued that Jay Z and Timbaland did not have the Hamdi familyвЂ™s permission to sample the songвЂ™s flute notes. The verdict ended a week-long trial and dashed an almost decade-long quest by Osama Fahmy, the nephew of Baligh Hamdi, an Egyptian composer whose 1957 song Khosara Khosara is partially used in Big PimpinвЂ™.