In
response to Craig Mack’s
copyright infringement lawsuit, Dr. Dre has filed a $50,000 slander
suit against the rapper in California. Mack claims that Dre’s
song "Zoom" from the Bulworth soundtrack was jacked
from his own song, "Get Retarded." Mack’s lawyers sent
a letter to Interscope requesting a payment of $60,000 threatening
to file a copyright infringement action if the money wasn’t paid.
Dre and his team never responded, and Mack sent another letter
was sent asking for $40,000. Dre filed the slander suit because
of the letters sent to Interscope, which Dre says "caused
doubt to be cast on his ownership of the copyright" of "Zoom.",
and "suffered damage to his goodwill in the music and motion
picture industries, and others have been deterred from licensing
or otherwise exploiting Young’s original compositions, and proximately
caused damage to Young’s business relationship with Interscope."
Sources that were employed by the label that employed Mack, Street
Life/WEA, claim that Mack didn’t make too much with the release
of his last album, "Operation: Get Down" sold less than
50,000 copies, which is absolutely terrible for a major label
release. (Goes to show you, if you take the indie route, you are
going to do much much better!)