| Roc-A-Fella
Sues to Stop Damon Dash
From Selling Jay-Z's
Reasonable Doubt Via NFT
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 18 – Roc-A-Fella
Records on Juneteenth filed a
lawsuit against Damon Dash, to
try to enjoin him from selling
the copyright to Jay-Z's debut
album Reasonable
Doubt. Photo here.
Order to Show Cause on Patreon
here
The complaint,
filed past 7 am into the
docket of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York where
Inner City Press found and
first reported it, says Dash
"had planned to sell [it] at a
SuperFarm Foundation online
auction on June 23,
2021."
With
that auction now canceled, the
complaint continues, "Dash is
currently frantically scouting
for another venue to make the
sale."
The
accompanying draft Order to
Show Cause would, if signed,
enjoy Dash from "altering in
any way, selling, assigning,
pledging, encumbering,
contracting with regard to, or
in any way disposing of any
property interest in
Reasonable Doubt, including
its copyright and including
through any means, such as
auctioning a non-fungible
token ('NFT') reflecting such
an interest."
The
complaint notes that during
the past year, the market for
NFTs has exploded.
Now, this
lawsuit, which Inner City
Press will continue to follow.
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