The Madonna and producer Shep Pettibone were acquitted by the U.S. court of charges of having committed plagiarism when writing the hit " Vogue " , 1990 , published the site of the magazine " The Hollywood Reporter " .
The original action was presented in July by the Salsoul label , which owns the copyright of the music album " Love Break" , launched in 1976 by ​​the Salsoul Orchestra.
The label claimed that only now , with the use of new technologies , it was possible to detect the print in a range of excerpts from Madonna . However , the judge of a district court in California said in his decision that the sampled portion is "minimal " , and does not constitute plagiarism.
" Having heard the original recordings and the song ' Vogue ' , the court finds that no reasonable jury would find excerpts sampled qualitatively or quantitatively significant in relation to the infringing work , or that they would recognize the appropriation . The court finds that any portion sampled was minimal or trivial, " says the ruling .
" We are very pleased with the decision and we believe the result is absolutely correct ," said attorney Richard Busch , who is Madonna .