Kanye West was accused by the estate of Donna Summer on Tuesday (Feb. 27) of “shamelessly” using her 1977 Һit “I Feel Love” without permission in his song “Good (Don’t Did).” The suit was submitted under copyright law.

Summer’s estate substantiated public allegations earlier this month that West had violated the copyright to her song “Good” by interpolating it into his #1-charting Vultures 1 album, “Good,” in a complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles. West was found to have committed the infringement by interpolating the song into “Good.”

Although her estate had “explicitly denied” West permission to do so, her attorneys assert that he “shamelessly used instantly recognizable portions” of her song in his track.

“Summer’s estate… rejected West’s proposed use because it did not wish to be associated with her controversial past,” her attorneys write. “In response to this denial, the defendants elected to steаl ‘I Feel Love’ and utilize it without authorization in an arrogant and unilateral manner,” the court records state.

According to the attorneys for the Summer estate, West re-recorded the hooky portions of her song “almost verbatim” before using them in his own. Critics and fans “immediately recognized” Kanye’s track as a “blatant rip-off,” according to the estate, because the tunes were so similar. Ty Dolla $ign, whose actual nаme is Tyrone William Griffin Jr., was also named in the lawsuit as an album collaborator.

“Good (Don’t Did)” was swiftly withdrawn from streaming platforms and from what appears to be digital versions of the album subsequent to the estate’s public statements earlier this month. Legal action, according to the Summer estate, is necessary because the harm has already been done.

The legal representatives of the estate write, “This lawsuit concerns much more than the Defendants’ simple non-payment of the required licensing fee for using the musical property of another.” Furthermore, this issue pertains to the necessity of safeguarding against the mere act of appropriating creative works when legal permission to use them is not obtained, as well as the rights of artists to determine how their works are displayed and utilized by the public.

Western did not respond to a request for comment from a representative immediately. Unable to reach Ty Dolla $ign for comment at this time.

The estate was contacted by Alien Music in January, on behalf of West, in an effort to obtain permission for the use of Summer’s composition, according to the complaint filed on Tuesday. The collective informed the estate that West had previously sampled “I Feel Love” for his own composition and was therefore requesting “urgent” review in order to expedite its imminent release.