Judge blocks Damon Dash’s attempted sale of Jay-Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ as an NFT

sued state officials in federal court, arguing that the law violates their First Amendment rights, and asking the court to block the state from trying to enforce the law while its constitutionality remains in question.A second lawsuit challenging the law’s constitutionality has been filed in federal court by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of Curb Records, an independent record label, and its charitable arm, the Mike Curb Foundation.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked 2x Emmy nominated Saturday Night Live writer and stand-up comic Sam Jay in all areas.

EXCLUSIVE: Damon Dash, co-founder with Jay Z of Roc-A-Fella Records, has been involved with a few reality television series including WEtv’s Growing Up Hip Hop and BET’s Ultimate Hustler.

Christopher Vourlias Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun returns to the sun-scrubbed Sahel region of West Africa for his latest feature, “Lingui, the Sacred Bonds,” which competes for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.Set on the outskirts of the capital city of N’Djamena, “Lingui” is the story of a single mother, Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), whose already fragile world threatens to collapse when she learns that her daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio Brahim), is pregnant — a

Zero Contact has become the first feature film acquisition for Vuele, a recently launched viewing and distribution platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs).The film will premiere as an NFT on the global platform, which launched last month as a joint venture between the film’s US producers, Enderby Entertainment, and financial technology company CurrencyWorks, according to Screen Daily.Vuele states it is the first direct-to-consumer platform to offer users exclusive, limited edition film and other

Parkinson’s disease. After suffering from the disease for over five years, the filmmaker was confirmed dead by his wife on wednesday, who said he died in his sleep at his apartment in New York City.

Shortly after the news broke on Wednesday that Robert Downey Sr., the director of the anti-establishment satirical classic Putney Swope had died in his sleep, his son Robert Downey Jr., paid tribute to his father, calling him “a true maverick filmmaker.”

Robert Downey Sr., the director of the anti-establishment satirical classic Putney Swope and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died today in his sleep at home in New York City. He was 85.

It’s official. Staging a musical NFT drop is no longer the cool, buzzy thing to do.

A Tribe Called Quest have announced plans to sell off a portion of their song royalties as an NFT (non-fungible token).The iconic hip-hop group have joined forces with music royalties marketplace Royalty Exchange for their first foray into the world of cryptocurrency.The sale, which starts at $35,000, will encompass 1.5 per cent of sound recording royalties from the group’s first five albums, which starts with their 1990 debut ‘People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm’ and runs

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the court order barring Damon Dash from auctioning an NFT that the Roc-A-Fella record label claims is an attempt to sell off copyright in Jay-Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ album that he does not own, and the private Universal Music share deal that edges it closer to a public stock market listing.SECTION TIMES01: Jay-Z NFT (00:7:38)02: Universal Music (00:23:57)(Timings may be slightly

Jay-Z has announced details of his first ever NFT, which has been created to celebrate 25 years of his debut album ‘Reasonable Doubt’.The NFT, created in collaboration with artist Derrick Adams, is called ‘Heir To The Throne’, the original title for the New York rapper’s legendary debut album that came out on June 25, 1996.The original artwork will be auctioned off in association with Roc Nation and Sotheby’s auction house.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jay-Z’s iconic debut album “Reasonable Doubt,” the rapper has commissioned multi-disciplinary artist Derrick Adams to create a one-of-one animated digital artwork that recontextualizes the album’s cover, which will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s as an NFT in a special single-lot auction.

A judge in New York yesterday issued a temporary restraining order telling Damon Dash that he is currently “restrained and enjoined from altering in any way, selling, assigning, pledging, encumbering, contracting with regard to, or in any way disposing of any property interest in [Jay-Z’s debut album] ‘Reasonable Doubt’, including its copyright and including through any means, such as auctioning a non-fungible token (‘NFT’) reflecting such interests”.

A waitress in New Jersey was reportedly abducted and assaulted by a group of five people she had just finished serving at a local restaurant in the state’s Washington Township area over the weekend.

Damon Dash is hitting back.

A.D. Amorosi When TMZ reported on June 19 that Roc-A-Fella Records was suing its co-founder Damon Dash for his attempt to auction off his one-time friend Jay-Z’s 1996 album, “Reasonable Doubt,” as an NFT, questions arose immediately.

Lawyers working for the old Roc-A-Fella label have gone legal over an NFT sale organised by one its founders, Damon Dash.According to legal papers, Dash allegedly included the copyright in the first album from his Roc-A-Fella co-founder Jay-Z – that being ‘Reasonable Doubt’ – in a non-fungible token that he minted and tried to auction off via NFT platform SuperFarm.