Actor and rapper Donald Glover convinced the Second Circuit to affirm his escape from a copyright lawsuit over his 2018 hit “This Is America” because the work he allegedly infringed wasn’t registered.
Rapper Emelike Nwosuocha registered only the sound recording of his song “Made in America,” meaning litigation remedies are available only his his performance and not the underlying musical composition, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in a May 10 summary order. The district court had also found Glover’s song didn’t infringe Nwosuocha’s, but the appeals court declined to reach that question.
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