started a legal battle against the rapper for using a sample of her track, Baby Can I Hold You, in 2017 hit Sorry.At the time, Nicki, 37, stated in documents that it was ‘fair use’, a common practice of using existing work to help develop new music.She explained that her team made ‘several requests for permission’ to license the song, which Tracy disapproved.The MailOnline states her lawyer said at the time: ‘Such free-flowing creativity is important to all recording artists, but particularly in hip hop.‘With that category of music, a recording artist typically goes into the studio and experiments with dozens of different “beats” or snippets of melodies, before hitting upon a pleasing combination.’Judge Virginia Phillips has now ruled that.
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