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Meek Mill Is Being Sued For Copyright Infringement For Allegedly Stealing Lyrics To 2 Songs

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Meek Mill just can’t stay away from the drama this week&period; Following <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;meek-mill-akademiks-exchange-words-after-meek-says-ak-is-canceled&sol;">his little feud with Akademiks<&sol;a>&comma; he’s now the target of a copyright infringement lawsuit&comma; accusing him of copying two songs from a Philly record company&comma; according to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bossip&period;com&sol;1916921&sol;meek-mill-sued-for-copyright-infringement-for-allegedly-stealing-lyrics-to-cold-hearted-ii-100-summers-exclusive&sol;">BOSSIP&period;<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Dream Rich Entertainment is accusing Meek&comma; his record label Dream Chaser and parent company Atlantic Records of civil conspiracy to commit copyright infringement&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The complaint revealed Dream Rich is alleging that Meek stole its copyrighted songs and passed them off as his own on his last album&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Champions&period;” In other words&comma; Dream Rich officials are claiming Meek didn’t write the lyrics to at least two of his songs on that album&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The songs in question are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;100 Summers” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cold Hearted II&period;” Dream Rich said in 2018&comma; it acquired the song lyrics and copyrights for those songs after its contracted songwriter wrote them&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Dream Rich said in court papers that Meek had access to one of its songwriter’s lyrics and recorded them using the copyrighted lyrics and title&comma; the court docs revealed&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;100 Summers” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cold Hearted II” later appeared on his 2018 album &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Championships&period;” <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Meek Mill has not yet responded to the suit&period; It also doesn’t appear that a lawyer has been listed yet for him&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">It also sounds like this lawsuit may have been a last resort as Dream Rich said its reps have tried to reason with Meek about the alleged song thefts but just couldn’t work it out&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Dream Rich wants wants to take Meek to court and is asking the judge in the case to order Meek to pay it at least &dollar;75&comma;000 for each alleged infraction in the lawsuit&comma; which comes out to a little bit more than &dollar;300&comma;000&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Atlantic did not publicly comment on the matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Want tea directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or click here to join&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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