# Judge throws out copyright lawsuit over Flo Milli’s ‘Never Lose Me,’ ruling producer never signed plaintiff’s $200 exclusive beat license

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/judge-throws-out-copyright-lawsuit-over-flo-millis-never-lose-me-ruling-producer-never-signed-plaintiffs-200-exclusive-beat-license/
- Published: 2026-11-10T12:00:45+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T22:41:38+00:00
- Original publisher: Music Business Worldwide
- Original article: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/judge-throws-out-copyright-lawsuit-over-flo-millis-never-lose-me-ruling-producer-never-signed-plaintiffs-200-exclusive-beat-license/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- A judge dismissed Deal’s copyright claims over “Never Lose Me”.
- The $200 exclusive licence lacked the producer’s signature.
- The ruling did not decide whether the songs infringed copyright.

## Summary

A federal judge in California dismissed Shamar Deal’s copyright lawsuit over Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me”, ruling that Deal had not shown he held a valid exclusive licence to the beat at issue. The decision turned on the licence paperwork, not on whether the songs infringed copyright.

Deal said he paid producer Gerreaux $200 in 2019 for a 10-year exclusive licence to the beat “Youu”, later used in Babyface Ray and 42 Dugg’s “Ron Artest” and sampled in “Never Lose Me”. The Traktrain licence was signed by the marketplace’s owner, not Gerreaux or anyone shown to be authorised to sign for him; the judge dismissed the claims with prejudice. Deal had sought at least $1 million, citing more than 96 million Spotify streams for “Ron Artest” and about 650 million across six versions of “Never Lose Me”.

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