Vanilla ice vs. david bowie & freddie mercury
Vanilla Ice had a hit, in 1991, with Ice Ice Baby — it sampled but did not credit the song Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Though at first denying it, Vanilla Ice later retracted the statement saying it was “a joke”. Facing a lawsuit by the duo, Vanilla Ice fessed to sampling the work. The case was settled privately out of court with Ice paying an undeclared sum of money and crediting Bowie/Queen on the track.
http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/04/19/5-famous-copyright-infringement-cases/