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50 Cent Loses Legal Battle Against Rick Ross Over 'In The Club' Remix

 50 Cent's 5-year feud against Rick Ross has finished reached the end. In 2015, 50 Cent filed a lawsuit against Rick Ross for remixing his hit song ‘In The Club’, and he was seeking $2 million from Ross for using his beat without permission.



Fast forward to 2018, a judge shelved the case because 50 cent does not own the copyright of the song, the song belongs to the record label Shady/Aftermath Records. The judge ruled that since 50 signed away his rights to the song as part of his agreement with Shady/Aftermath, he couldn’t sue Ross for sampling it. The case was dismissed without merit.


50 Cent appealed and the appeal ruled in favour of Rick Ross and although Rick Ross did not ask for permission, the fact that 50 signed away rights to the song makes the case void. The appeals court ruled that Ross was guilty for copyright infringement to Shady/Aftermath but not to 50. While 50 doesn’t have the right to personally sue the Maybach Music rapper, he may request that Shady/Aftermath take legal action against Ross or seek damages from Shady/Aftermath for failing to protect his right to royalties by suing Ross.


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