{
  "id": 15760848,
  "title": "Drake ‘Janice STFU’ Lawsuit, Supreme Court Ruling, Mariah Carey Win & More Music Law",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/drake-janice-stfu-lawsuit-supreme-court-ruling-mariah-carey-win-more",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T15:25:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Billboard",
    "slug": "billboard",
    "url": "https://www.billboard.com/pro/legal-beat-janice-stfu-mariah-carey-summer-walker/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Drake is embroiled in a high-stakes copyright lawsuit over his hit single “Janice STFU,” which a songwriter, Aviel Calev Hirschfield, is claiming he shamelessly copied from an earlier demo. Hirschfield alleges that the track's hook is \"literally identical\" to his own, word-for-word, note-for-note, beat-by-beat. Drake's legal team vehemently denies these allegations, calling the case a \"manufactured and baseless attempt to exploit Drake's name\" and stating that Drake wrote the song and has no connection to Hirschfield. Hirschfield's team, however, claims to have proof that he wrote eight lines of lyrics verbatim in Drake's song, and Drake's team suspects the claims are made up due to Hirschfield manipulating metadata. The case is expected to go to trial, with both sides presenting irreconcilable positions.",
  "summary": "In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, Drake gets sued over a chart-topper, SCOTUS spurns the majors, Mariah Carey beats a defamation case and much more.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}