@Saltyk: @Something Amyss: The thing about the "Amish Paradise case" is that there was no case, as there was never a lawsuit. According to both sides [http://weirdal.0catch.com/txt/coolio.html], Al told his label he wanted to do the song, two people from his label assured him that Coolio approved it, then told him later that Coolio's management had a problem, but it was still fine, while according to Coolio, a reporter asked him about the song during the Grammy's and he made his statement about how he never gave his approval and didn't approve of it, but knew he couldn't do anything about it because it was fair use. That was pretty much the end of it. Later, Coolio realized how stupid he had been over it and regretted his comments and they've since made amends.
I'm not sure where the idea that there was a lawsuit involved came from, but that was the most inaccurate rumor of the whole exchange, whereas the "rumor" that Al's label lied to him is one of two possible scenarios based upon what Weird Al himself said about it, that two different people from his label assured him that Coolio gave them his personal approval. So either the people from the label lied about getting Coolio's approval, or Coolio gave them his approval, only to later tell a reporter that he did not and he was upset that the song was recorded.
