Rapper Bryson Tiller Beats ‘Exchange’ Copyright Suit on Appeal

Rapper Bryson Tiller’s successful defense against claims that his platinum-selling song “Exchange” copied key beat and vocal patterns of another hip-hop song “Shawty So Cold” was upheld by the Ninth Circuit in a nonprecedential opinion.

A three-judge panel found Tuesday that Gary Frisby, a music producer professionally known as G-Money, failed to file a notice of appeal for the district court’s judgment that Tiller didn’t copy the underlying musical composition of his song.

The US District Court for the Central District of California also correctly decided that Tiller and RCA Records didn’t copy the sound recording of “Shawty So Cold,” ...