LUDACRIS - LUDACRIS AND KANYE WEST IN COPYRIGHT-INFRINGEMENT SUIT

LUDACRIS and KANYE WEST are set to attend a settlement conference in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against them.

Judge DEBRA FREEMAN of the United States District Court Southern District of New York has scheduled a conference for 4 February (05) between Ludacris, producer-turned-rapper West and aspiring rap group IOF.

MTV reports the New Jersey group filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in April (04), alleging that the two stole the hook for Ludacris' 2003 hit STAND UP from them.

The group members say they handed four demo tapes to Ludacris and West on separate occasions, and that one of the records featured, STRAIGHT LIKE THAT, was recorded in 2000 and has a chorus similar to that of Stand Up.