Ex-NWA Rep’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’ IP Suit Nears Toss

A California federal judge on Monday tentatively threw out the third iteration of an intellectual property lawsuit accusing NBCUniversal Inc. and others of stripping a former N.W.A. manager of co-authorship rights on the film “Straight Outta Compton,” finding there wasn’t enough evidence that he was actually a co-author.