Warner Music Group Inc., Universal Music Group Inc. and a handful of other entities involved with Notorious BIG’s 1994 debut album are off the hook on copyright claims lodged by a 1970s music producer, a New York federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Lee Hutson, who was popularly known as the lead singer of the soul group The Impressions in the 1970s, claimed the producers of Notorious BIG’s Ready to Die album had used a sample ...