Diplo settles ‘Harlem Shake’ legal dispute, clears samples for Baauer
No one could have expected the "Harlem Shake" to blow up to the prodigious scale it did, and if you had to pick any song to go viral, at least it was a halfway decent track from a more-than-decent artist. The success of Baauer's ubiquitous single not only spawned a thousand internet spinoffs, it also incurred a lawsuit for copyrighted samples against Mad Decent.