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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Courthouse News Service
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MANHATTAN - Fabolous, Universal Music Group, Island Def Jam and other record labels need not face claims that the rapper's 2012 song "For the Love" infringed on a track co-written in 1974 by Herman Kelley and Bessie Banks, "Try to Leave Me if You Can," a federal judge ruled.

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