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The copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over their 2023 track “Telekinesis” has been voluntarily dismissed.
Victory Boyd, the Roc Nation-signed artist who sued Travis Scott, SZA, and Future for alleged copyright infringement over their 2023 track “Telekinesis,” has voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit.
The joint stipulation filed by both sides on Tuesday indicated that the case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning Boyd is barred from refiling the claims in the future. Both parties bear their own legal costs and waive any right to appeal.
The news comes just a couple of months after a federal judge declined to toss the case out, rejecting the defendants’ request for dismissal.
“After some internal reflection, Victory decided to forgive Travis Scott and move past a legal process that felt like it was draining her creatively and spiritually,” said Boyd’s attorney, Keith White. “Victory is moving forward to focus on her art, her ministry, and her life. She sends her blessings to all of the parties in the case and is excited to move forward.”
Filed last year, the lawsuit accused Scott and his collaborators, as well as a group of labels and publishers, of copying her song “Like The Way It Sounds” when creating “Telekinesis.” Boyd claimed that she wrote the lyrics and recorded a demo as a voice memo in 2019, after Kanye West sent her chords and melodies.
According to the complaint, Boyd accused the defendants of “intentionally and willfully” copying her work. She was credited as a co-writer in the track’s streaming metadata and was offered an 8% writing credit, but said she never authorized the song’s commercial release in the first place.
In March 2026, U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil in Manhattan declined to dismiss the case, trimming some of the fat but leaving Boyd’s copyright claims intact.
The defendants argued that Boyd’s copyright registrations were invalid due to her failure to include West as a co-author. But the judge found their argument lacking, asserting that they had come “nowhere near” proving her registrations were invalid. According to Judge Vyskocil, Boyd’s first copyright registration only took effect in December 2023—months after “Telekinesis” was released.