Legal Opinion
Vincent Peters v. Kanye West
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2012No. 11-1708PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
In 2006, Vincent Peters, whose stage name is Vince P, wrote, recorded, and distributed a song entitled Stronger. The song’s title comes from a key line in its “hook” (refrain or chorus). The line in turn draws from an aphorism coined by Friedrich Nietzsche: “what does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
Vince P believes that he had an opportunity to “make it” in the hip-hop recording industry — he needed only to find an executive producer. His search led him to John Monopoly, a business manager and close friend of Kanye West, one of hip-hop’s superstars. Vince P sent Monopoly…
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