On January 8, 2026, the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York granted Universal…

On January 8, 2026, the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York granted Universal Music Group’s motion to dismiss , and in so doing, prevented hip-hop group, Salt-N-Pepa, from exercising its termination rights under Section 203 of the Copyright Act. Universal argued, and the district court agreed, that Salt-N-Pepa never owned the copyrights to the sound recordings at their…