Rapper Cardi B asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit saying the she stole copyrights owned by musical duo Kemika1956 to make the song “Enough (Miami).”
The duo sued only because it realized it lacked a copyright in their song “Greasy Flybread” —but it “cannot circumvent the need for a copyright registration merely by framing their claim under common law,” the artist’s lawyers said according to the motion to dismiss filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The duo, Joshua Fraustro and Miguel Aguilar sued the rapper, as well as Atlantic Records and ...
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