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Aaron Fuchs

I have moved a comment from the article page to this talk page, for further consideration. The text below in italics is the text added at 20:51, 17 September 2020, by ‎ 2604:2000:1344:4817:cb0:273a:52a9:536:

In 1992, Aaron Fuchs, president of Tuff City Records, bought the rights to "Impeach the President", and soon afterward sued Def Jam Records for royalties from its use on three then-recently released songs: "Around the Way Girl" and "6 Minutes of Pleasure" by LL Cool J, and "Give the People" by EPMD, which used a vocal sample from the song and not the drum track. By this time Ronny Jordan was using the sample on his first two albums.^[1] The lawsuits were settled out-of-court.^[1] Hammond was unaware of the widespread sampling of "Impeach the President" until he heard it used in both "That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson and "Luv Me, Luv Me" by Shaggy. Even George Benson sampled the beat on his 1996 track "The Thinker" from the album That's Right. In a 2013 interview he stated that he has never received royalties from the sampling, and that he was still trying to do so.^[2] Hammond also alleges that Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) removed several songs from his publishing catalog based on fraudulent contracts presented by Fuchs, and as a result Hammond has received no royalties from them.^[3] Hammond's website includes a notice encouraging those who have been sued by Fuchs or any of his record labels to contact Hammond.^[3]
Please note: Aaron Fuchs requests the above paragraph either be removed entirely from Roy C Hammond's wikipedia entry, or greatly amended. This information was taken entirely from an interview with Hammond in which Fuchs was not offered the opportunity to challenge Hammond’s false claims. Aaron Fuchs purchased "Impeach" long before 1992 and this is supported by a number of prior contracts Fuchs and Hammond entered into for the purpose of re-issuing an anthology of Hammond's material for his NightTrain label. Hammond was paid royalites and Hammond received an ongoing royalty stream from Tuff City. No songs were removed from his publishing catalog; and in fact, due to Tuff City's efforts, Hammond became a participant as a writer in no less than 25 compositions. Mr. Fuchs is able to substantiate these statements with a series of contracts that TC and Hammond entered into.

We take these untruths seriously and have in the past retained counsel to see to it that they do not remain propagated.

Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:27, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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^ ^a ^b Rule, Sheila (April 21, 1992). "Record Companies Are Challenging 'Sampling' in Rap". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
^ Cite error: The named reference protest song was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Hammond, Roy. "FYI". RoyCMusic.com. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

[Rule-1] Rule, Sheila (April 21, 1992). "Record Companies Are Challenging 'Sampling' in Rap". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2013.

[protest_song-2] Cite error: The named reference protest song was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Website-3] Hammond, Roy. "FYI". RoyCMusic.com. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

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