‘This Is America,’ Not A Copyright Case, 2nd Circ. Says – Law360

By Andrew Karpan (May 13, 2024, 11:21 PM EDT) — 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….