U.S. District Court Magistrate Stephen Brown said Miami-based Slip N Slide has the right to issue the LP ‘Welcome to the 305’ as long as it affixes a sticker to it stating “contains previously unreleased material.” Brown’s opinion is a recommendation that now goes to a U.S. District Court judge, who will either accept it and issue a final order against TVT or hold a new hearing if he feels the magistrate erred in the report.

TVT lawyers said they plan to file objections to Brown’s report in a bid to overturn it. “Legal wrangling aside, we believe Pitbull fans won’t find any real enjoyment from these abandoned, unfinished demos, which to us sound like snippets of old performances were cut and pasted onto new beats without Pit’s creative involvement, cooperation or approval.”

New York-based TVT Records, wrote Brown, wrongfully interfered with Slip N Slide’s business when it sent dozens of letters to distributors stating that the album, scheduled for May release, was illegally recorded.

Slip N Slide had 103,000 orders worth some $800,000 for the album, which contains songs Pitbull recorded in 2001 when he was an unknown. Pitbull had signed the rights to that material to Slip N Slide when he left th company to join TVT.

Brown alluded to the fact that Pibull himslf had not voiced an opinion in the case: “The court finds extremely signigicant the fact that the artist himself is not a party to this lawsuit and the lack of any evidence that he has expressed any negative feeling toward the release of 305.” wolfe said Slip N Slide may not have enough time to get the album into stores for the holiday season. In that event, the label will be back in court asking TVT for some $4 million in damages for lost sales, he said.