Fabri Fiber will have to compensate Valerio Scanu For the text of the song To me of you: The sentence is definitive. Twelve years after the release of the piece, the Cassation puts an end to the dispute with compensation from 70,000 euros in favor of the singer.
Fabri Fibra – Valerio Scanu: the sentence is definitive
Justice has put the point. Twelve years after the publication of the song To me of youcontained in the album War and Peace of 2013, the rapper Fabri Fibra was definitively sentenced to compensate Valerio Scanu with 70,000 euros per defamation.
The Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence issued in the civil seat by the Milan Court of Appeal, rejecting the appeal filed by Fabrizio Tarducci (real name of fiber) and its former label, Universal Music Italia.
What was in the contested song?
The text of To me of you contained explicitly offensive references against the Sardinian singer, who at the time had immediately turned to lawyers Ugo Prospero Cerruti, Paola Castiglione And Antonio Gargiulo. From there, a long legal battle that has lasted for over a decade.
In 2015, Fibra had already been sentenced to a penalty for 600 euros of fine and a provisional of 20,000 euros. The civil case, started in parallel, saw a first compensation of 25,000 euros, then increased to 70,000 on appeal. Now everything is confirmed.
The reasons for the Cassation
The sentence is clear: according to the judges, the damage was amplified by the “media resonance of the episode“, from the “Exceptionally serious discredit“And from the”intensity of willful misconduct“Demonstrated in the offending verses. Not only that: the song has been certified platinum, and social reactions have been recognized as an integral part of the damage.
A passage of the motivation also refers to an episode following the first sentence: during a live al Fabrique of Milan, in October 2015, Fabri Fibra He would have performed the song again, even projecting excerpts of the sentence on the giant screen.
The comment of the lawyer Cerruti
“Valerio deserved this compensation for having been attacked by a person he did not know, with a free and unjustifiable malice”said the lawyer Cerruti At the end of the procedure.
Ours too Moscow Tzè TzèIn his satirical column, he had dealt with the story with a pungent article that questioned the border between provocation and offense, between copyright and responsibility.
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