{"id":254177,"date":"2026-03-30T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=254177"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:44:32","slug":"umg-fires-back-at-drake-appeal-over-not-like-us-lawsuit-dismissal-3-takeaways-from-response-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/umg-fires-back-at-drake-appeal-over-not-like-us-lawsuit-dismissal-3-takeaways-from-response-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"UMG fires back at Drake appeal over \u2018Not Like Us\u2019 case dismissal: 3 takeaways from response brief"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nUniversal Music Group has filed its response brief in Drake's appea<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>UMG says Drake used AI-generated voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur \u201cto goad Lamar into responding to his diss tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":242288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[2167,1161,130318,269],"class_list":["post-254177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-news","tag-drake","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-mbw-reacts","tag-universal-music-group"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254177","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254216,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254177\/revisions\/254216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}