Nicki Minaj came out victorious in her lawsuit against singing Tracy Chapman, as a judge ruled she did not commit copyright infringement.
The lawsuit claimed that Nicki committed copyright infringement when she experimented with Tracy‘s “Baby Can I Hold You” song for her own, “Sorry”.
Variety reports that a judge ruled on Wednesday that Nicki was within the realms of “fair use” of the song and it is not copyright infringement. Nicki had worked on “Sorry” with recording artist Nasir Bin Olu in 2017 and during that time, she had believed the song was a remake of another track by Shelly Thunder. “Baby Can I Hold You” was included on Tracy‘s debut album in 1988. Nicki and her reps reached out to Tracy for permission to use the song, but she
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