{"id":226475,"date":"2025-03-17T20:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=226475"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:31:03","slug":"5-key-arguments-from-umgs-attempt-to-dismiss-drakes-defamation-lawsuit-these-claims-are-no-more-than-drakes-attempt-to-save-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/5-key-arguments-from-umgs-attempt-to-dismiss-drakes-defamation-lawsuit-these-claims-are-no-more-than-drakes-attempt-to-save-face\/","title":{"rendered":"5 key arguments from UMG&#8217;s attempt to dismiss Drake&#8217;s defamation lawsuit: &#8216;These claims are no more than Drake&#8217;s attempt to save face.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"As reported earlier today (March 17), Universal Music Group (UMG) has filed a motion to dismiss Drak<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported earlier today (March 17), Universal Music Group (UMG) has filed a motion to dismiss Drake&#8217;s defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s hit track Not Like Us, arguing the case is &#8220;utterly without merit&#8221; and should be dismissed with prejudice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130580],"class_list":["post-226475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}