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MadgeMadonna could be in trouble again over the rights to a sample used on one of the tracks on her new album ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’.

Madge has just lost a court case in which she was accused of stealing work by a Belgian composer for her 1998 hit ‘Frozen’. Now another case may have come to light.

It seems the song ‘Get Together’ from the album uses a riff by composer Dominic King, who borrowed the cut with permission from Chaka Khan’s song ‘Fate’. The sample was then used on Stardust’s dance floor smash ‘The Music Sounds Better With You’.

However, it turns out that Madonna never asked to use the tune, King told the Sun: “Her song uses my riff. I’m surprised myself and co-writer Frank Musker didn’t get a call. It would have been nice to have been asked.”

He added: “I am almost certain a discussion about money will happen with her people. These things can be settled in retrospect and something will definitely be happening, believe me.”

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