Looks like Jay Z isn't backing out of this lawsuit without a fight. According to Billboard, the Brooklyn rapper plans on counteracting sound engineer, Chauncey Mahan, lawsuit for co-authorship of 45 songs by submitting a motion of dismissal. Jay believes Mahan was given plenty of time and notice about obtaining copyright registration certificates, but he waited too long to file a claim.

"After 14 years of silence, Petitioner’s claims (and his attempt to use the federal courts as part of his shakedown scheme) are outrageous and wholly without merit," states the memorandum in support of tossing the lawsuit. "More significantly, for purposes of this Motion, the claims are plainly barred by the three-year statute of limitations contained in the Copyright Act, and have been for more than a decade."

As reported in early July, former sound Roc-A-Fella sound engineer, Chauncey Mahan, sued Jay Z for legal documentation granting him co-ownership titles to the six albums (45 songs) created during 1998-2002. This isn't his first judicial run in with Jay. Before filing the most recent suit, Mahan attempted to extort millions of dollars from the rapper due to an alleged stash of secret "masters" he had in his possession. The lawsuit was later dismissed.

"Here, Petitioner must allege enough plausible grounds to infer Roc-A-Fella’s intent to create a work of joint authorship with Petitioner, or to raise a reasonable expectation that discovery will reveal such evidence. But Petitioner has failed to allege any facts in this regard, and has in fact made allegations that demonstrate the opposite."

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[Billboard]

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