February 21, 2025
A New York federal judge has ordered a Miami rapper to pay out nearly $287,000 in legal fees for litigating a failed copyright case targeting Childish Gambino's 2018 hit song "This Is America," less than a third of what the record label lawyers and others had asked for.
May 13, 2024
Second Circuit judges shut down an appeal from a Miami rapper who says the 2018 hit Childish Gambino song "This Is America" bit off the flow from his 2016 record "Made In America," agreeing with a New York federal judge that the less successful rapper never protected the composition of his older song with a copyright.
March 24, 2023
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday threw out a Miami rapper's suit accusing Childish Gambino of stealing the distinctive hook for his 2018 hit "This Is America," saying copyright for the allegedly infringed song was never registered and that there is no substantial similarity between the two songs' compositions.
September 12, 2022
Rapper Childish Gambino has fired back against a Miami rapper accusing him of stealing the distinctive hook for his 2018 hit "This Is America," arguing the New York federal suit is doomed because a copyright for the allegedly infringed song was never registered.
May 06, 2021
A Miami rapper is accusing Childish Gambino of stealing the distinctive hook for his 2018 hit "This is America" from an earlier track called "Made In America," calling them "practically identical."