Kayne West and Donna Summer have reached a settlement in their copyright infringement case

Kanye “Ye” West has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with Donna Summer’s estate after filing legal documents against him and Ty Dolla $ign over the usage of Summer’s song “I Feel Love.”

Earlier this 12 months, Summer’s estate reportedly filed a lawsuit over the “unauthorized interpolation” of a song from West and Ty’s “Vultures 1” project. People. Court documents filed on Thursday, June 20, show that the 2 sides “have entered into a settlement agreement that represents a full and final resolution of all claims arising from the lawsuit,” People reported.

Both sides will reportedly pay their own legal costs. Larry Stein, the lead attorney for Summer’s estate, said Billboard in a statement that the agreement “did not include permission for Ye to use Summer’s materials in the future.”

“We have not licensed this song,” Stein said. “As part of the settlement, they agreed not to distribute or use the work in any other way. So we got what we wanted.”

Stein “declined to comment on any other terms of the deal, including whether Ye paid a monetary settlement for breaches that had already occurred,” Billboard reported.

According to court documents filed in February, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign were charged with “gross theft” for including an “interpolation” of “I Feel Love” into their song “Good (Don’t Die)” “without permission,” People reported. Summer’s husband, Bruce Sudano, was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Sudano took to Twitter to specific his disappointment with the inclusion of Summer’s song following the discharge of “Vultures 1.”

“@kanyewest asked for permission to use Donna Summer’s song I Feel Love, was denied… changed the words, had someone sing it or used AI but it’s I Feel Love… copyright infringement!!!” Sudano was writing during this timeper person.

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The lawsuit said West was “expressly denied” a permit to make use of the 1977 track since the Summer estate “did not want any association with West’s controversial history.”

“Despite this denial, defendants shamelessly used instantly recognizable snippets of Summer’s hit song ‘I FEEL LOVE’ on their recently released collaborative album ‘Vultures 1’ and during recorded live concerts,” the lawsuit states.

“In the face of these repeated denials, West and co-defendants attempted to bypass this obstacle by instead making an unauthorized interpolation,” the filing alleged. Summer’s estate alleged that Ye and Ty Dolla $ign used the “iconic melody” from “I Feel Love” because the chorus of their song and “re-recorded almost verbatim” several parts of Summer’s song illegally.