Tracy Chapman performs"Stand By Me" on the Late Show with David Letterman, Thursday April 16, 2015 on the CBS Television Network.
Avoiding trial, Minaj makes an offer for illicitly using 'Baby Can I Hold You,' and Chapman accepts it. The cost of taking another songwriter's work without permission and illicitly leaking a remade version is $450,000. That's what Nicki Minaj will be paying Tracy Chapman to satisfy her copyright infringement claims over"Sorry," a derivative of"Baby Can I Hold You."
On Thursday, documents became public in California federal court reflecting the fact that Chapman had accepted Minaj's offer of judgment. As a result, the two will not proceed to a trial later this year. By accepting Minaj's offer, Chapman not only scores a win in the case and $450,000, the esteemed singer also avoids being responsible for costs had a jury eventually decided her claims weren't worth that amount.
Chapman filed the case back in Oct. 2018. The suit came a couple months after Minaj had released her album, . While"Sorry," a collaboration with Nas, wasn't on the album, Minaj allegedly leaked the song to Funkmaster Flex, a popular radio DJ, and the song then traveled on the internet.
such a misleading title. nicki was found to not have infringed on copyright and offered $450k to pay tracy’s legal fees. it’s that simple and this is literally misinformation.
All these people hyping Tracy and saying it's well deserved like she got 450k in 2 years in court😭 she can't even recover from paying the lawyers with that 😭 and she was offered 400k before court and turned it down cause she taught she can get a milly lmfaooo
Why didn’t she sue flex ... he the one that played it after Nicki said don’t play it ? Why Nas ain’t getting sued ?
this title is misleading. chapman initially lost the case but Minaj offered to pay 450k to avoid wasting time by going further trial. get things right, u r shady as fuck.
I don't get it. Nicki makes a song, submits it for clearance, it doesn't get cleared, so she doesn't put it on her album (aka make $ off it) and gets sued because the song leaked?
Stop being irresponsible. It's in black and white this is was NOT copy right infringement, but instead Nicki Minaj won as this was settled as 'fair use'. Nicki is paying for her lawyers & throwing her a bone for her to go away. Next.
that’s some pocket change for nicki
She ended nicki
Wtf... pay her more plus royalties...
Nickis bank account: yall hear Sumn?
her bank account didnt move
queen ended her
TheRealGBreeze
stay in school barbz
all this over a leak... glad it's over and she just took the money.
great news! happy for tracy. hope someday to see her perform. i would pay any amount without blinking.
hey, you got a fast car
500k for a verse four Albums out
nicki's son prolly paid for it 😭
she makes 500K+ for a verse... literally the money she had in her pocket
nickis wallet didn’t move
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