Court strikes copyright pose in favour of Madonna's Vogue

A divided US federal appeals court has cleared Madonna of allegations she violated copyright law by using part of another song in her 1990 hit Vogue.

The horn segment the singer was accused of stealing would be unrecognisable to the average listener of Vogue because it is very short, occurs only a few times in the Madonna song and was modified for it, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1.