A California federal judge on Monday agreed to award attorneysā fees and costs to Madonna and others after their successful defense of a copyright suit over the 1990 hit single āVogue,ā. U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid OāConnell said Madonna, producer Shep Pettibone and others were entitled to a total of $670,000 in fees and $50,055 in costs after winning a November ruling that plaintiff VMG Salsoul LLC couldnāt sue over a single horn chord allegedly sampled from the 1977 disco song āLove Breakā. āHaving listened to the sound recordings of Chicago Bus Stop, Love Break and Vogue, the Court finds that no reasonable audience would find the sampled portions qualitatively or quantitatively significant in relation to the infringing work, nor would they recognize the appropriation, the Court finds that any sampling of the Horn Hit was de minimis or trivial.ā The plaintiff alleged that it was only through new technology that the ādeliberately hiddenā sampling...