“Michael Jackson’s estate and record label have been cleared from a class-action lawsuit to determine whether three songs on the star’s posthumous 2010 album, Michael, were sung by a Jackson impersonator.
“Appeals court judges ruled in favour of Sony Music and the estate on Tuesday.
“Reports earlier this month misinterpreted a statement from Sony Music as an admission that an impersonator was used on the songs Breaking News, Monster and Keep Your Head Up.
“For the purposes of legal argument, Sony had accepted that Jackson was not the main singer on these songs, but argued that this would not mean it had no legal right to sell the music under his name.”
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