In this week's Legal Beat, a ruling on R. Kelly's royalties, a settlement for 50 Cent, a big win for Childish Gambino, a bizarre case against Afroman, and more.
The deal will end a case in which the rapper claimed he'd been "exposed to ridicule" by the use of his image in misleading ways.
After pointing out key lyrical differences, a federal judge said simply: "No more airtime is needed to resolve this case.”
A state appeals court has resolved a dispute over who gets access to Kelly's account to pay for monetary judgments, but major questions remain unanswered.
The officers say they've been "subjected to ridicule" over the rapper's critical posts about a guns-drawn search last year that resulted in no criminal charges.
"Just fulfilling my civic duty," the hitmaker captioned a hilarious TikTok.
The deal would resolve a case filed by a musical collaborator who says she was offered just $25,000 from the much-publicized NFT sale.
The artists were charged as part of a larger investigation into crypto company Tron Foundation Limited and its founder, Justin Sun.
The label claims an artist named Trefuego "brazenly" used a segment from a 1986 instrumental song by Japanese composer Toshifumi Hinata without permission.
The singer avoided battery charges by entering a prefiling diversion program.
