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50 Cent can’t sue over uncleared sample on publicity right grounds

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The Second Circuit Appeals Court in the US has sided with Rick Ross in a five year old legal battle with 50 Cent, concluding that the latter rapper couldn’t sue the former for using an uncleared sample in a mixtape on publicity right grounds.50 Cent and Ross have, of course, a very long-running feud.

As part of that, in late 2015, 50 Cent sued over a mixtape Ross had put out earlier that year to promote his then new album ‘Black Market’.

In that mixtape, called ‘#RenzelRemixes’, Ross had rapped over a snippet of 50 Cent’s 2003 hit ‘In Da Club’.Of course promotional mixtapes are very common in hip hop and often feature uncleared tracks and samples in the mix.

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