The case has been dismissed...
From People
A federal judge has dismissed Salt-N-Pepa's lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), ruling that the hip-hop duo did not plausibly establish ownership of the copyrights and master recordings at the center of the dispute.
On Thursday, Jan. 8, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote granted UMG’s motion to dismiss the filing in the Southern District of New York, according to court docs obtained by PEOPLE, thereby closing the case brought by Cheryl James and Sandra Denton, known famously as Salt-N-Pepa, who had sued the label in May 2025 seeking to reclaim rights to their early sound recordings.
In dismissing the lawsuit, Judge Cote ruled that the artists could not reclaim the recordings under the Copyright Act because they never owned — and therefore never transferred — the copyrights they were seeking to terminate.Fun Fact: If artists fail to file a termination of rights notice within five years of eligibilty, they lose the right to terminate their contracts.
4 comments:
Their lawyer should know that. They wasted their money. LOLO
Musical artist =Slave
Idk these people are… so funny cause look how they did Spin. I’ll never forget that So yea what goes around comes around …
They didn't write anything to copyright. They sung someone else's words. The writer of the songs can reclaim their copyrights, not the preformers.
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