Victims of Illegal Copying
German rapper Bushido has been charged with copying 16 songs from Dark Sanctuary. The song "Les Mémoires Blessées" was sampled by Bushido on his single "Janine" (2007) off his 6th and top-selling album Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück (2006). On that album Bushido sampled eight musical works of Dark Sanctuary without permission, including the songs "Les Larmes Du Mepris" (used on "Hast du was bist du was") and "L'autre Monde" (used on "Sex in the City").
On 23 March, 2010 he was convicted by German courts to a condemnation and was obliged to stop the sales of the concerned albums, singles and samplers, including Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück. In addition to that, he was bound to recall and destroy all unsold copies.
A video leaked by Marzel Becker and Stephan Heller, two German music criticizer, on the internet. In the video they compared Dark Sanctuary's songs to Bushido's songs.
Due their split up on July 2009, the members of the band could no longer sued the rapper after his judgment.
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