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Salt-N-Pepa sue Universal Music in US for termination of copyright grant

By Nick Robertson ( May 20, 2025, 22:37 GMT | Insight) -- Hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa sued Universal Music Group yesterday, accusing the publishing giant of refusing to acknowledge a notice of termination of a copyright grant under Section 203 of the Copyright Act. Salt-N-Pepa seeks a declaratory judgment of the validity of the rights termination. The group also alleges conversion under New York state law.Universal Music Group faces a lawsuit from hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa, filed in the Southern District of New York yesterday, accusing the company of failing to fulfill its obligation to terminate its grant of copyrights of the group’s music under Section 203 of the Copyright Act — pushback that the group argued is increasingly common in the music industry....

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