Hip Hop mogul Sean Combs breached an agreement with a British producer not to use his Diddy alias in the U.K, London’s High Court has ruled.
The rap mogul violated last year’s deal with Richard ’Diddy’ Dearlove by referring to himself as Diddy on a song from his latest album, Press Play, judge David Kitchin ruled.
Combs has promised to ditch the line "mainline this Diddy heroin" from future performances of the song The Future in Britain.
Dearlove also claimed the agreement had been broken because British people could access international websites like MySpace and YouTube on which he uses the alias Diddy.
"We want him either to use a neutral name like P. Diddy or to shut them down," Dearlove's lawyer told the court earlier this year.
But Kitchin found record company employees controlled the content of the websites, not Diddy himself, and the record companies were not part of the agreement.
Unless P. Diddy and Dearlove reach a compromise over using the nickname on MySpace and YouTube, the extent of the rapper’s control of the site’s content will be the subject of a trial in October.
