Shirley Caesar Suing #UNameItChallenge Creator For Selling Her Music Without Permission - blogged by: @eleven8 - โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ Weeks after weโve all enjoyed our beans, greens, potatoes and tomatoes, Pastor #ShirleyCaesar is coming for her coins. โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ Caesarโs lawyers are dragging #DJSuede into court for the unauthorized use of her sermon and song. DJ Suede is the man responsible for remixing Shirley Caesarโs 2010 โHold My Muleโ sermon and turning it into the #UNameItChallenge which became wildly popular in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. According to Caesarโs legal team, Suedeโs video is worth more than $5 million in losses, so theyโre coming to collect. โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ Shirley Caesar isnโt upset that the song went viral on social media. She even made a few bucks by selling merchandise of her own. The issue is with DJ Suede placing the song for sale on #iTunes and uploading an official music video on #Youtube and #Facebook, where it currently has over 100k views and generates advertising dollars. According to her attorneys, the abundance of alcohol โviolate the brand, image and name of a Christian pastor.โ When asked to remove the video, DJ Suede refused. โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โDJ Suede and his management were in conversations with her lawyer. They didnโt reach an agreement and they put it out anyway,โ said #GlendaHatchett, former juvenile court judge โ now a high-profile Atlanta-area attorney working on the case. โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ Caesarโs lead attorney, James Walker, says that DJ Suedeโs video also jeopardized a deal she was working on with #SnoopDogg in which proceeds would have gone to help the hungry. Snoop respectfully shot a viral video of his own, which Caesar approved of. โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โSnoop did his clean version to send the message that โthis is Shirley Caesarโ, We need to honor her,'โ Walker said. โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ โ It sounds like Shirley Caesar has this case in the bag. Thereโs no way you can get away with sampling someoneโs voice and profiting on it without their permission. The rules donโt change just because you went viral on #Instagram. โข@balleralert
