Travis Scott, Sza and Future say that the copyright trial of a gospel singer during their 2023 “Telekinsis” tube is fatally defective because the demo in question was co-written with Ye, who provided them with the track and its green use.
Victory Boyd continued in January on “Telekinesis”, which was adapted from an unprecedented song by Ye (formerly Kanye West) entitled “Ultrasounds”. Boyd says that she wrote the words of “Ultrasounds”, originally entitled “Like the Way It Sunes”, and did not allow her work to be reused by Scott, Sza and Future.
But the lawyers of the group of Hitmakers say that in a request on Monday, July 14 to reject the trial according to which the affirmations are without merit because they had an express authorization to use the “ultrasounds” of Ye, which created the agreements, the pace and the melody of the demo.
“As the complainants” [complaint] Spered at this motion (what it should not), the facts demonstrate that the use of defendants, if necessary, of the work of LTWIS was duly authorized by Mr. West, as a spouse of the LTWIS work, having the right and the authority to authorize such use, “write Scott, SZA and the lawyers of the company McPherson LLP.
Defense lawyers claim that allegations should not even go to the proof phase, as basic problems with the recording of Boyd copyright make the case invalid.
According to Scott, Sza and Future, Boyd filed an registration with the American copyright office in 2023, the only author of “as the way it sounds”. It was wrong, they say, since you created the song melody.
Boyd tried to solve this problem last month by depositing another recording of the copyright office for the lyrics of the song she wrote. But this is not valid, also say the lawyers of the artists of “telekinesis”, because “in law, the words cannot be protected by copyright as an autonomous work when it is created in tandem with or in the context of an inseparable musical composition.”
“Without a valid recording, applicants cannot initiate or maintain a request for an offense,” says the request for rejection.
Boyd’s lawyer, Keith White, tell Display panel Tuesday, July 15, that the request is “an attempt to reject copyright and accounting complaints as a delay tactic”.
“We will deposit opposition documents in the next two weeks, and we are fully expecting the request for Travis Scott to be summarily rejected in a short time,” adds White.
The representatives of Scott, Sza, Future and Ye did not immediately return the requests for comments.
“Telekinesis” spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, culminating in n ° 26.
