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Taylor Hicks has won round one of his legal effort to stop a producer from selling songs he recorded before his American Idol victory.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins issued a ruling temporarily barring Nashville producer William Smith from selling songs written and sung by Hicks after two of them appeared on the iTunes Web site, the Associated Press reports.

Smith told the AP on Thursday that the songs are no longer for sale. An Aug. 30 hearing is scheduled to determine whether the order will be made permanent.

In his legal filing, Hicks claimed that Smith tried to profit by selling three songs that Hicks wrote and recorded with Smith: “The Fall,” “Son of a Carpenter” and “In Your Time.” Hicks said Smith lacks the rights to the music.

Now Smith is back peddling trying to get himself out of hot water claiming that he was only selling the songs to fight bad reviews of Hicks song “Do I Make You Proud”. What a crock!