Judge Dismisses Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Donald Glover

A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed the copyright infringement lawsuit against musician-actor-writer-comedian Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) for his 2018 record, “This is America.”

Billboard reported that Judge Victor Marrero announced that a “comparison with the challenged composition reveals that the content of the choruses is entirely different and not substantially similar.”

Marrero, also played the role of music critic, observing that Emelike Nqosuocha’s (the artist who filed the lawsuit) lyrics were “short, simple, self-aggrandizing proclamation unlike Gambino’s lyrics, which touched on what “America means to and how it is perceived.”

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