Victory Boyd has voluntarily dismissed her copyright infringement lawsuit against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over their 2023 track Telekinesis.
The Roc Nation-signed singer-songwriter’s move to end the case is reflected in the court docket on Tuesday (June 2).
According to a joint stipulation filed by both sides, the case has been dismissed with prejudice, meaning Boyd is barred from refiling the claims, with each party bearing its own legal costs and waiving any right to appeal.
The move comes less than three months after a federal judge in Manhattan declined to throw the case out of court, rejecting the defendants’ bid 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 Keith White, Boyd’s attorney, in a statement obtained by Billboard.
“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.”
“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.”
Keith White, Victory Boyd’s Attorney (via Billboard)
As reported by MBW in January 2025, Boyd and her publishing company, The Songs of Glory, accused Scott, his collaborators, and a group of labels and publishers of copying her song Like The Way It Sounds to create Telekinesis.
The track was released in 2023 on Scott‘s US No.1 album Utopia, via Cactus Jack, Epic Records and Sony Music.
Boyd alleged that she wrote the lyrics and recorded a demo as a voice memo in November 2019, after Kanye West provided her with chords and melodies. She claimed that West later shared the recording with Scott, who used it with his collaborators to create the allegedly infringing track.
In her complaint, Boyd claimed the defendants “intentionally and willfully copied” her work when they released Telekinesis.
Boyd 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 March 2026, U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil declined to dismiss the case, trimming some elements of the complaint but leaving Boyd‘s copyright claims intact.
The defendants had argued that Boyd‘s copyright registrations were invalid because she omitted that West should have been listed as a co-author of the work.
Judge Vyskocil found that the defendants’ arguments were “somewhat confused” and that they had come “nowhere near” proving the registrations invalid.
The judge also dismissed copyright claims brought by The Songs of Glory, ruling that the company does not appear on either of Boyd‘s copyright registrations.
She noted that Boyd‘s first copyright registration only took effect in December 2023, months after Telekinesis was released.
Telekinesis has been streamed more than 554 million times on Spotify to date.
Other defendants named in the original suit included Sony Music Entertainment, Epic Records, Cactus Jack and watchmaker Audemars Piguet.
Boyd had also alleged that she declined to let Audemars Piguet use Telekinesis in an advertising campaign, after the brand approached her in late 2023.
West, who was credited as a co-writer on Telekinesis, was not named as a defendant in Boyd‘s lawsuit.Music Business Worldwide
