(10.02.2012) Australian
DJ Jaime Fernandez was ordered by the Federal Magistrates Court of
Australia to pay AU$ 10,000 in damages after being found guilty of moral rights
infringement charges brought forth by Armando Perez, known to a wide audience
as “Pitbull”. Fernandez was sued for violating moral rights provisions of the
Australian copyright law, which provides that “the author of the work has a
right of integrity of authorship in respect of the work”. The case centred at
Fernandez’s remix version of the song Bon Bon, originallyperformed
by Pitbull. He was claimed to have distorted the work by replacing some of the
original words with an “audio drop” (Read more).