Gabor Presser petitioned for harms of at any rate $2.5m (£1.7m) at New York's US District Court.
Presser claims 33% of New Slaves, from West's collection Yeezus, is an unapproved duplicate of the 1969 melody Gyongyhaju Lany.
Attorneys for West and Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC have yet to remark.
Presser said he composed Gyongyhaju Lany, which generally deciphers as Pearls in Her Hair, when he was in the band Omega. He said it was "a standout amongst the most adored pop tunes ever in Hungary and crosswise over Eastern Europe".
The artist and writer, who started his music profession amid the '60s, said he was ignorant his melody was being utilized until West's legal advisor messaged him not long after in the wake of showcasing started, demonstrating the star "might want to work out an arrangement with you as quickly as time permits".
Check issued
Presser, who recorded his legitimate case on 20 May, said he was given 24 hours to react to the email.
His protestation expressed West's legal advisors sent him a $10,000 (£6,850) check and demanded he allow a permit, however Presser included he didn't money the check.
"Kanye West purposely and purposefully abused [the] offended party's organization," the dissension said. "After his robbery was found, respondents declined to bargain decently with offended party."
Rapper West featured Glastonbury a year ago, and is one of the greatest names in prevalent music with 21 Grammy Awards added to his repertoire and more than 11 million collections sold in the only us.
Be that as it may he is famously flighty and uncompromising, contrasting himself with figures including Jesus and Leonardo Da Vinci, and once in a while dispatching into long mid-set tirades.
It is the most recent prominent copyright case to stand out as truly newsworthy - in April a US court ruled Led Zeppelin originators Robert Plant and Jimmy Page must face trial consecutively over the tune Stairway to Heaven.
A Los Angeles locale judge said there were sufficient likenesses between the tune and an instrumental by the band Spirit to give a jury a chance to choose if harms ought to be honored.
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