Photo Credit: Amazon Music Ahead of an infringement trial involving “Thinking Out Loud” creator Ed Sheeran and the estate of “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Townsend, a federal court has ruled that the plaintiffs […]
Photo Credit: Soundtrap The US Copyright Office issues a notification of inquiry soliciting public comments on late fees for mechanical royalty payments under the Music Modernization Act. The US Copyright Office is asking for public feedback on […]
Photo Credit: Keith Pitts AI-created images lose US copyright protections in a legal test for the new technology. The US Copyright Office says it should not have granted copyright protection to images in a graphic […]
Photo Credit: Midjourney AI Generated Getty Images has launched a lawsuit against Stability AI over the unauthorized use of its images to train its AI model. The lawsuit was filed in a U.S. district court […]
Photo Credit: Pandora As they continue to spearhead copyright infringement lawsuits against Pandora, Word Collections and Spoken Giants are now seeking sanctions against the SiriusXM-owned platform. Jeff Price’s Word Collections just recently submitted a Rule […]
Photo Credit: Mohammad Rahmani Microsoft’s OpenAI and GitHub seek to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit over the open-source code used to train their artificial intelligence systems. Microsoft, along with its subsidiaries GitHub and OpenAI, has […]
Photo Credit: Kevin9625Ja / CC by 4.0 The Bad Bunny copyright infringement lawsuit over the track “Safaera” may be coming to a close. The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by AOM Music, Inc. The suit […]
Photo Credit: Note Thanun Getty Images says it has started legal proceedings against AI artwork generator Stable Diffusion. The lawsuit was filed this week in the UK in London’s High Court and alleges “Stability AI […]
Photo Credit: Bridger Songwriters can now easily register collaborative musical works, and all the rights holders of a track can begin collecting their copyright in just a few minutes. The following was created in collaboration […]
Photo Credit: Jana Zills / CC by 2.0 Plaintiffs drop ‘Shake It Off’ Copyright Infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift, allowing her to focus on re-recording her album, ‘1989.’ A lawsuit filed initially against Taylor Swift […]
An Altice USA call center. Photo Credit: Hudconja BMG, Concord, and Universal Music Group (UMG) have officially filed a more than $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against New York City-headquartered internet-service provider (ISP) Altice USA. […]
Photo Credit: Triller In August, Sony Music Entertainment (SME) sued Triller for allegedly failing to pay millions in owed licensing fees. Now, the short-form video-sharing app has officially responded to the complaint. Triller just recently […]
Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. After increasing webcasting royalty rates for the 2021-2025 period, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has officially announced a cost-of-living adjustment for 2023 – […]
Photo Credit: Markus Winkler Roddy Ricch and producer 30 Roc are facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the rapper’s mega-hit “The Box.” In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, California-based musician Greg Perry alleges that […]
Photo Credit: Rubaitul Azad CNN is officially facing a multimillion-dollar copyright infringement suit for allegedly using approximately 115 works owned by Freeplay Music (FPM) in close to 280 segments without permission. 21-year-old production music library […]
Generative AI has had a very good year. Corporations like Microsoft, Adobe, and GitHub are integrating the tech into their products; startups are raising hundreds of millions to compete with them; and the software even […]
It’s no easy feat humanizing a global icon such as Elvis Presley. Consider, he still has impersonators officiating at endless kitschy Las Vegas weddings 25 years after his death. Part of that humanizing fell to […]
Dylan Horetski ❘ Published: 2022-11-07T20:10:03 ❘ Updated: 2022-11-07T21:22:37 Spanish Twitch star Rubius was quickly unbanned after a miscommunication with SEGA led to a copyright strike while playing Sonic Frontiers during his […]
Photo Credit: Markus Winkler Disney faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over a song in Frozen II, which “can only be explained by copying.” Artist and songwriter Daniel E Grigson is suing Disney, claiming that a […]
Disney and 2-time EGOT winner Robert Lopez are being taken to court by a songwriter that claims his 2001 track was stolen and used in “Frozen 2” … and he allegedly came to the conclusion […]