Future and his attorneys have reportedly defeated a lawsuit that alleged he repackaged a song by another rapper to make it a hit of his own.

On Friday (August 25), Judge Martha Pacold threw out the legal filing by rapper DaQuan Robinson alleging that his song, “When U Think About It,” was taken by the Atlanta rapper to create his track “When I Think About It.”

Robinson claimed he emailed an early version of his song to Future’s producer a year before the release of what he claims is an infringement of his work. Pacold ruled, however, that general themes in music, specifically hip-hop, are not covered by copyright.

“The thematic elements that [the accusers] address — guns, money, and jewelry — are frequently present in Hip Hop and rap music,” Pacold wrote, according to HipHopDX. “The commonality of these themes in Hip Hop and rap place [them] outside the protections of copyright law.”

In support of her ruling, Judge Pacold referenced Notorious B.I.G.’s “Machine Gun Funk,” Kanye West’s “Diamonds From Sierra Leone” and Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.”, noting that the ideas and narratives in question are “too common a narrative to be protectable.”

“It is a fragmentary expression that is commonplace in everyday speech and ubiquitous in popular music,” Pacold added of the central phrase of Future and Robinson’s nearly identical songs.