Judge rules that the plaintiff lacks standing to sue.

Earlier today, judge Christina Snyder ruled that the nephew of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi did not have standing to sue Jay Z and Timbaland over the sampling of Hamdi’s ‘Khosara Khosara’ in ‘Big Pimpin”.

The plaintiff, Osama Fahmy, had argued that “moral rights” applied to Jay Z’s license of the sample, while Jay Z and Timbaland countered that moral rights could not be invoked on an American license. Rather than answering that question, Snyder ruled that Fahmy lost standing when he signed all rights to ‘Khosara Khosara’ to the Sout El Phan record label, negating the need for a jury to examine the infringement case.

This ends a pretty entertaining trial: earlier this week, Timbaland beatboxed and Jay Z forgot that he owns Tidal. [via THR]