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Judge Won’t Rule on Jay-Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Rights Before Damon Dash’s Roc-A-Fella Auction
Jay-Z's "Reasonable Doubt" rights are up for debate, but there will be no ruling before Damon Dash's auction of his one-third portion of Roc-A-Fella.
The judge had been asked to decide that tricky question because of allegations that Jay-Z was using “false” threats of a looming termination to drive down the auction price for Dash’s stake in Roc-A-Fella Records Inc., which controls the rights to the famous album. But in a ruling Monday (Sept. 30), Judge Robert W. Lehrburger flatly refused to do so — saying he had no legal power to add complicated questions of copyright law to the already-messy fight over Dash’s stake. The owners of the other two-thirds of Roc-A-Fella — label co-founders Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) and Kareem “Biggs” Burke — have already attempted to stop the auction, including making changes to the company’s bylaws and intervening in the lawsuit.
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