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2 Live Crew rapper, heirs, label embroiled in copyright fight struggle to interpret jury verdict, bench ruling

By Melissa Ritti ( October 29, 2024, 12:21 GMT | Insight) -- A month after a US judge ruled that termination rights to various music albums by 2 Live Crew were wrongly included in the bankruptcy estate of a now defunct record label — and two weeks after a jury said those same albums don't qualify as works for hire — the band members and their heirs are still at an impasse with the label that received the transferred assets.  In a notice, the parties present vastly different interpretations of what a final judgment in the case should look like.Counsel for 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell and the children of his late bandmates Mark Ross and Christopher Wong Won last week reached out to US Judge Darrin P. Gayles of the US Southern District of Florida with a plea for judicial intervention....

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