Nicki Minaj has filed a lawsuit against copyright not to be tried.
The 38-year-old rapper has to pay singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman $ 450,000 for the illegal use of her 1988 song “Baby Can I Hold You” on her track “Sorry”.
Minaj also agreed to pay Chapman’s legal costs. The offer was accepted on Thursday per page six.
Chapman filed the lawsuit in October 2018 after ‘Sorry’ was leaked to DJ Funkmaster Flex and went viral online. The song was not from Minaj’s album ‘Queen’.
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The 56-year-old claims Minaj has asked permission to use her song and Chapman does not agree to the terms. Then Minaj allegedly went ahead and used part of the song anyway.
“We only agreed for some reason. It would have cost us more to be tried,” a Minaj representative told Pitchfork.
Nicki Minaj (L) and Tracy Chapman (R) have settled a copyright lawsuit.
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Meanwhile, Chapman’s representative said: “I am pleased that this matter has been resolved and I am grateful for this legal result which confirms that artists’ rights are protected by law and must be respected by other artists. I have been asked several times in this situation to to get permission to use my song; in any case politely and in a timely manner, I have unequivocally said no. ‘
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“Minaj apparently chose not to hear and use my composition, despite my clear and explicit intentions. As a songwriter and independent publisher, I am known for protecting my work. I have never authorized the use of my songs for examples. “The lawsuit was a last resort – a result of an attempt to defend myself and my work and to seek protection for the creative enterprise and the expression of songwriters and independent publishers like me,” the statement concluded.