MANHATTAN – A federal judge agreed Thursday to dismiss claims regarding two songs released decades apart by Rita Ora and The Notorious B.I.G., whom spoken-word poet Abiodun Oyewole accused of infringing a line about “party and bullshit” from a 1968 work.
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