Music Publisher: Judge Must Reconsider Ruling In Copyright Fight Over 1986 Song

( September 24, 2024, 8:41 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A music publisher says a New York federal judge should reconsider an August holding in which the judge ruled that the publisher must pay royalties to a hip-hop group that created a 1986 hit single despite its concern that the song infringed the theme song of the long-running television show “Dragnet,” arguing that the judge’s order fundamentally and inappropriately changes the relationship between the rappers and the label....

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