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Playboi Carti & UMG Didn’t Abuse DMCA By Filing Takedown Against Rapper’s Song, Judge Rules
Playboi Carti and Universal Music Group didn't abuse federal copyright laws with a false takedown notice against another rapper, a judge ruled.
A federal judge says Universal Music Group and Playboi Carti didn’t abuse the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when they issued a takedown notice – erroneously, it turns out – against another rapper’s song that used the same beat. According to Tuesday’s decision, G-Baby paid $250 to producer Pi’erre Bourne(Jordan Timothy Jenks) in 2017 for a non-exclusive license to an instrumental track, which he later used as the basis for “Oi!” The next year, Carti (Jordan Terrell Carter) used the same beat in “Right Now,” a track on the album Die Lit, which reached Number 3 on the Billboard 200. “Carter and Jenks knew that ‘Oi!’ was properly licensed and not infringing, yet decided to conspire with Universal,” the rapper wrote in his complaint.
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