Puerto Rico's Supreme Court allowed Carliz De La Cruz Hernandez to pursue specified identity and copyright claims involving her recorded “Bad Bunny baby” phrase as used in the 2022 song Dos Mil 16; the court did not decide liability or award damages. [1]

The posture resembles the paper's reminder that an appellate filing does not itself revive a dismissed claim; this ruling reopens part of a case, but procedural survival is not a verdict on commercial use, copyright ownership or compensation.

One part did not return; Rolling Stone's account of the 80-page ruling says damages tied to the older use of the recording in Pa Ti remain time-barred; that limit belongs beside the revived claims because a procedural-win headline can otherwise make the whole lawsuit appear restored. [1]

No verified topical X post surfaced in the recorded search, so fandom judgments about Bad Bunny or the former relationship add no evidence; the lower court must now address the surviving theories, defenses and any damages attached to Dos Mil 16 while leaving the older damages claim barred.

The ruling makes a human voice recording legally contestable on two routes without deciding either one; what survived is the opportunity to prove claims; what did not survive is the older damages demand; neither side has yet won the case the headline may tempt readers to imagine.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles