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"Portishead&amp;#039;s Geoff Barrow has posted a letter allegedly revealing that The Weeknd had requested to sample the band&amp;#039;s track &amp;#039;Machine Gun&amp;#039;.  The R&amp;amp;B singer&amp;#039;s team reportedly claimed last year that the apparent sample on his track &amp;#039;Belong To The World&amp;#039; wasn&amp;#039;t similar enough to lead to copyright infringement.    Barrow tweeted at the time: &amp;quot;Seems The Weekend (sic) have said there is no sample used or enough likeness to Machine Gun to warrant any infringement....or credit.&amp;quot; However, Barrow has now posted what appears to be a letter from a representative of The Weeknd dated February 2013, asking for the rights to use the sample &amp;quot;without limitation&amp;quot;. Barrow has previously said of the dispute: &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s a load of bollox when someone asks to sample you and you refuse, they should have the respect as a fellow artist to not use it. Hey kids Part 1 of &amp;quot;No Infringement&amp;quot; @theweeknd pic.twitter.com/UWZqW193cS \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) May 5, 2014  &amp;quot;We usually give sample clearance to tunes we like. It&amp;#039;s got f**k all to do with money! As most of them are hip-hop artists that are [poor]... I don&amp;#039;t wanna get paid... I just want my beat back.&amp;quot; The Weeknd had spoken about Portishead in an earlier interview with Complex, saying: &amp;quot;Yeah, that [Portishead] was the inspiration behind that. I wrote a letter to the producers of Portishead and let them know this album is inspired by them.&amp;quot; Watch the music video for The Weeknd&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Belong To The World&amp;#039; and Portishead&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Machine Gun&amp;#039; below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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