LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A famed Indian composer has won a court order barring sales of a hip-hop hit he claims borrowed heavily and without credit from one of his songs in an act of "cultural imperialism."A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday issued an order prohibiting further sales of the song "Addictive" by Truth Hurts unless and until composer Bappi Lahiri is listed on the song's credits, Anthony Kornarens, an attorney for Lahiri told Reuters.
"The judge took the matter quite seriously and felt as though, from what I could tell, the defendants had not acted appropriately," Kornarens said.
Lahiri first filed in October against hip hop producer Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, Aftermath Records, Aftermath parent Interscope Records and Universal Music Group, the world's largest media company and a unit of Vivendi Universal
A spokesman for Universal Music referred calls to Interscope. An Interscope spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment. Dr. Dre's attorney, Howard King, was also not immediately available to comment.
Kornarens said Universal's attorneys indicated to the court they would consider an appeal of the injunction.
Lahiri claims that the producers of "Addictive" lifted four minutes of the original recording of the song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai."
Truth Hurts' album sold about 600,000 copies between its June release and the time the suit was filed late last year.
"Addictive" was released as a single and became a top 10 hit. Truth Hurts, whose real name is Shari Watson, told MTV last year that Dre had remixed "Addictive," according to an article that appeared on the MTV Web site.
"He really took it to another level," she said at the time. "He took another part of the Indian sample and added it to the beginning and to the middle."
Kornarens, who accused the record label of "cultural imperialism," said the judge set an expedited trial date of June 17 for Lahiri's suit.
