Rap star Jay Z won a breach of contract and copyright lawsuit over his Roc-A-Fella record label logo. Photo: ReutersA federal judge has dismissed a $US7 million ($NZ9.6m) lawsuit accusing Jay Z of breach of contract and copyright infringement against a Bronx, New York clothing designer who claimed to have created the logo for the rap star's Roc-A-Fella record label. The plaintiff claimed in his July 2012 lawsuit to have created artwork in 1995 depicting a vinyl record that became the basis for the Roc-A-Fella logo. Jay Z, Dash, Roc-A-Fella and its parent Universal Music Group Inc, a unit of France's Vivendi SA, countered that a Roc-A-Fella art director created the logo. The logo includes a superimposed "R," and has been used on items generating hundreds of millions of dollars of sales.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 28, 2016 02:15 UTC