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        <title>IF YOU HEARD A HOT TRAK ITS.....HOLLA'BACK!!!!! - HOLLA'BACK - News</title>
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            <title>InJustice for All Documentary:The People's Court</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Check out the People's Court on April 16, 2010.  Injustice for All ;Summary MisJudgment coming Soon!]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Run4Justice</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[June 12, 2009]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Oral Argument Posted with Celebrity Justice Piece</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Check out our Link featuring the portion of oral argument in the Court of Appeals where Fab/Neptunes' lawyer was questioned about whether the Holla'back Young'n Song was copied?  Check out her response?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Holla'back, Ya Heard-A-Uz!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Holla'back Records will release its new album featuring unreleased and therefore, unjacked tracks from artists previously signed to the label; R&B sensation Kyee, & hip hop superstars Kevlar & Trajik.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>THE JUDGES' DECISIONS</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[AS STATED IN THE GREATEST MOVIE MADE THIS CENTURY, "THE GREAT DEBATERS"<br /><br />WHO IS THE JUDGE?<br />THE JUDGE IS GOD!<br />WHY IS HE THE JUDGE?<br />BECAUSE HE DECIDES WHO WINS OR LOSES, NOT MY OPPONENT...<br />...Who is your opponent ? He does not exist....Why doesnt he exist? Because he is a mere dissenting voice of the truth i speak !!"<br /><br />6/30/ 05   <br />District Court dismisses case, denying Boone right to have case heard by jury.<br /><br />Numerous legal errors made by District Court Judge (and subsequently admitted by Court of Appeals).<br /><br />Attornies file for sanctions (asking that Boone pay all their attorney fees) for filing frivoulous case. Sanctions were denied by the District Court stating that there was reasonable basis for Boone's counsel to believe that her allegations were "grounded in fact "when complaint was filed.<br />   Throughout proceedings Defendants claim they have never heard of us!<br /><br />Our new release is our response to these superstars!<br /><br />Holla'back...Ya-Heard-A-Uz!<br /><br />8/2/05 Case sent to Court of Appeals. <br />Appeals Court acknowleges numerous legal errors and opinions made by District, but denies Boone's appeal to have case sent back to be heard by jury of her peers.<br /><br />3/05/07 Case sent to Supreme Court. Supreme Court denies Boone's writ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Defendants' Rebuttal</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Lawrence Ferrara, Ph.D. prepares rebuttal report basically contending that Holla' back is unprotectable as it has been used in numerous pieces and that Holla'back and Young'n do not share any element of original musical expression. <br />However, of over 50 songs presented by the Defense as evidence, none of them (except Young'n (Holla back) and Holla' back)<br />share the numerous admitted similarities divulged during deposition questioning and testimony.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Expert Musicological Report No. 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, musicologist, pianist and Associate Professor of music history at the University of Pennsylvania was also hired to analyze 2 pieces.  Dr. Ramsey wrote detailed and specific report discussing & analyzing the recordings in question, the history of rap music and "stiiking similarities" (musical and lyrical) which he stated abounded throughout each piece.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Boone v. Jackson et. al</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On November 3, 2003,  a Copyright Infringement suit was filed against John D. Jackson (Fabolous), Pharrell Williams . Charles Hugo (The Neptunes) and their record labels & distributors alleging that the hit song "Young'n (Holla back) infringed on the copyright held by Holla'back Records for their 1999 release titled "Holla'back."]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Expert Report of Musicologist Documenting Similarities between Songs</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Judith Finell Music Services, Inc. prepares Preliminary Comparison of "Holla Back" as performed by Trajik and Young'N (Holla Back)" as performed by Fabolous.<br />In her "Summary" Ms. Finnel reports numerous similarities and, additionally,states in her Comparison of "Trajik" and "Fabolous:...<br />item 6.  Fabolous contains a possible musical "fingerprint" suggestive that copying occured in the sense that a similar distinctive feature is present in both songs.  This distinctive feature, an "echo effect," in "Fabolous" is the phrase back, back, back,"which similarly occurs in "Trajik."  When a variation or departure from the initial statement of a phrase ("Holla back') is similar in 2 songs, this is further evidence that copying is likely to have occured.<br />Here are the 3 pages of documented similarities noted by one of 2 experts proving that illegal copying occured:<br /><a href="http://www.hollaback.org/publicfiles/judith1.jpg">Judith1</a><br /><a href="http://www.hollaback.org/publicfiles/judith2.jpg">judith2</a><br /><a href="http://www.hollaback.org/publicfiles/judth3.jpg">judith3</a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Chart of Similarities-Exhibit J</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[1.Genre<br />2. Time Signature 4/4 <br />3. Structure:Intro,Alternating Verse, Chorus, Closing, Lack of Bridge<br />4. Dense narrative verses<br />5. Call & Response Motif<br />6.Length of Holla'back Chorus 16 measures<br />7. Insturmentation (drums, high hat/cymbal, bass, guitar vocals)<br />8. Key Gminor Holla'back F#minor Young'n (Holla bac)9. Three Note Sychopated. Rhythm-guitar &bass;-Holla'back; Guitar 1<br />9. Young'N, phrase lengh 2 measure loop<br />10. one note played exacly 3x, playing root note of key, syncopated rhythm(dotted. quarter,dotted quarter; quarter,<br />11.repeated every other measure, throughout entire song!]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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