The Colombian singer sold five million copies of the single but
a judge rules that whoever wrote it copied parts of a 1990s
track.  09:50, UK, Thursday 21 August 2014   A judge has ruled
that one of Shakira's hit songs copied the work of a Dominican
songwriter.  US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the
Colombian pop star's 2010 Spanish-language single Loca infringed
on Ramon 'Arias' Vasquez's song Loca Con Su Tiguere, which was
released in the late 1990s.  Mr Hellerstein dismissed claims
that Shakira's English version of the track also infringed,
citing a lack of evidence during the hearing in Manhattan.  The
single, which featured Dizzee Rascal, was not released as a
single in the UK.  The judge said Shakira's single was based on
a 2007 song by Dominican rapper Eduard Edwin 'Bello' Pou, better
known as El Cata, which also copied Arias and was distributed by
Sony.  The ruling is a victory for Mayimba Music, which holds
the rights to Arias's work and which sued Sony Corp of America
and several other Sony u