Fun Fun Fun: Rebecca Black May Take 'Friday' Producers to Court

By AOL Music Editors Posted Apr 4th 2011 01:20PM

Rebecca Black may consider legal action against the producers of her song 'Friday.'

In a letter from their lawyer, Brian Schall, the 13-year-old singer and her mother Georgina Marquez Kelly are accusing the Los Angeles producers, Ark Music Factory, of copyright infringement and unlawful exploitation of her likeness and song on YouTube, iTunes, Amazon and Ark's website, according to a report in Rolling Stone. Black and her mom also allege that Ark never gave them master copies of the 'Friday' recording and sold an unauthorized ringtone of the song.

Ark has denied everything and said that they've all worked everything out. "I have met with Rebecca Black's mom and everything is fine," said Ark Music founder Patrice Wilson. "She will get the masters and the song. They can have it all."

Wilson added that Black has since signed to another record company.

Black's mother originally paid Ark $2,000 to write two songs and produce one video for her daughter, which has been returned ten-fold, according to a recent breakdown of Black's 'Friday' earnings in Forbes.

After premiering Feb. 10, 'Friday' already has more than 82 million views on YouTube.

Watch Rebecca Black's 'Friday.'

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Monday 04 April

By Me1

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They oughtta quit all that whining and just be thankful that they are making money off of such a gortesquely awful fiasco.

By bob012167

Knock off all that whining and be thankful you're making money off of that grotesquely awful fiasco.

By kristin

my kids showed me her video on youtube. Not sure why she is sue-ing. Maybe if she takes some voice lessons in a few years she might be a good singer but for now singing Friday, Friday every 2 seconds does not a singer make

By cgrl

dont be a brat - you should pay them a huge chunk and thank them! sure, the video was naively hideous but it worked and got you to where you're going. forget contracts and legalities, think of what is right and wrong and do the right thing. you're never too young to do the right thing, even if others around you won't. and don't let your mom turn into a momma Lohan

By Trisha

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OMG, I hate that f*ing song! It was stuck in my head last night and I couldn't sleep! I wanted to hunt that kid down and snip her vocal cords so she'll never be able to put out another God awful song in her life! Well that's a little dramatic, but I was not happy about it. Not at all.

By jaggedscribe

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I know this was "written" by a thirteen year old, but the legitimate producers of this song should be scalded in acid. The sreams that would fill the air would be more soothing to my ears than this song. The vocabulary would surely be more interesting too.

By steener122

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she didn't even write the song, the ark people did

By joel whiteko

This song is horrible! What is she doing riding in a car? She is only 13 years old.

Tuesday 05 April

By DrummKing

As a musician for over 40 years and I like MOST music new, old, alternative, rock, pop any...all I can say is this tune is ANNOYING and I gave it several chances but the results are the same...ANNOYING..so just change the name to ANNOYING and it will be good.

By Audball

I enjoyed Stephen Colbert's version ten times more. Proof that its not just the lyrics that made this song terrible. Colbert's kills me everytime.

It was an april fools joke

By judy

dude she sucks anyways! she probably has an auto tune. i feel bad for her though...

By ugh

Gosh, my husband sings better than this in the shower..and he can't sing! Maybe I should get him a catchy melody and submit his music to Ark Music, they can pay us too!

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