Young Thug's RICO case drags on, the Supreme Court rules against Warner Music, Childish Gambino wins a song-theft case, and more music law news.
Young Thug walks the runway for the Philipp Plein collection during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at New York Public Library on Feb. 13, 2017 in New York City.This is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between.
Pitting prosecutors from America’s rap capital against one of hip-hop’s most influential artists, the Young Thug case was always an extraordinary story – not least because it represented a flashpoint in a decades-long debate over the use of rap music in criminal trials. But as the case drags on for years, critics like Kevin Liles, the CEO of Warner Music Group’s 300 Entertainment, say the case has metastasized into something else.
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