Rapper Kanye West is already causing commotion with the release of his highly anticipated album, “Vultures.” Not long after getting slammed online by rock music icon Ozzy Osbourne for sampling a live version of his […]
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge This week, a panel of US appeals court judges has renewed the legal battle over Fortnite dance moves by reversing the dismissal of a lawsuit filed last year by […]
A new battlefront is emerging in the ongoing conflict between the music industry and artificial intelligence applications. This time, it’s the Amazon-backed Anthropic that finds itself in the collective crosshairs of Universal Music Group, ABKCO […]
Sarah Silverman and two bestselling novelists have sued Meta and OpenAI, the tech startup behind ChatGPT, accusing the companies of using the authors’ copyrighted books without their consent to “train” their artificial intelligence software programs. […]
Nicki Minaj has been sued for copyright infringement over her 2014 song I Lied. According to court documents obtained by TMZ, musician Julius Johnson filed a copyright complaint on Monday in California against the Starships […]
Photo Credit: Akshar Dave A group of music publishers is suing Elon Musk’s Twitter for copyright infringement to the tune of $250 million. But the group faces a recalcitrant Musk who isn’t paying rent—why would […]
Members of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) sued Twitter for copyright infringement in a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, today (June 14), The New York Times reports and documents viewed by Pitchfork can confirm. […]
Twitter could be on the hook for more than $250 million after the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a federal copyright lawsuit claiming the social media platform “profits handsomely from its infringement of Publishers’ […]
Photo Credit: Justin Higuchi / CC by 2.0 Back in March of 2022, Florida-based Artikal Sound System sued Dua Lipa for allegedly lifting from its work to create “Levitating.” Now, a federal judge has dismissed […]
A judge has dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Dua Lipa over her 2020 single Levitating. The New Rules singer was sued by the reggae band Artikal Sound System last year over alleged similarities between […]
Photo Credit: Eva Rinaldi / CC by 2.0 Ed Sheeran faces an appeal from the family of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ co-writer following his recent ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright infringement victory. Following Ed […]
Photo Credit: 金 运 Copyright Royalty Board finally confirms its determination over songwriter mechanical royalty rates for 2018-2022. The Copyright Royalty Board issued a determination on Tuesday (May 23) over Phonorecords III — U.S. songwriters’ and publishers’ […]
Music copyright is complicated — and takedowns, penalties, and lawsuits for copyright infringement are all too common. But 99% of takedowns, penalties, and lawsuits related to copyright violations can be avoided, according to a leading […]
A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States hide […]
Thinking out loud, it seems Ed Sheeran is enjoying a legal victory lap. Weeks after a New York jury found he did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On,” Sheeran was cleared of a […]
Ed Sheeran performing live. Photo Credit: Christopher Johnson Why stop at one copyright lawsuit victory? A federal judge has dismissed with prejudice another infringement complaint filed against Ed Sheeran concerning “Thinking Out Loud” and the […]
Ed Sheeran has won his second copyright lawsuit over his song Thinking Out Loud this month. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton dismissed a second case against the British singer over similarities between his […]
Less than two weeks after a federal jury ruled that Ed Sheeran’s 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud” did not plagiarize elements of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” the English musician has beaten a second lawsuit […]
Megadeth have settled a copyright lawsuit stemming from the artwork for their latest album, The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!. Back in February, New York-based illustrator Brent Elliott White sued the band, claiming that […]
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