Plaintiffs Drop ‘Shake It Off’ Copyright Lawsuit Against Taylor Swift

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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 […]

Copyright Royalty Board Unveils COLA For Webcaster Royalties

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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 – […]

Roddy Ricch Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over Mega-Hit ‘The Box’

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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 […]

Freeplay Music Sues CNN In Multimillion-Dollar Copyright Lawsuit

Freeplay Music Sues CNN In Multimillion-Dollar Copyright Lawsuit

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 […]

The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next

Two images of the Mona Lisa each in a different art style, one classical, the other more modern abstract with vibrant colors.

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 […]

How Colonel Parker tried to copyright Elvis’ jumpsuit

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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 […]

Supreme Court copyright case looks at Andy Warhol series of Prince images : NPR

Supreme Court copyright case looks at Andy Warhol series of Prince images : NPR

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. A Federal District Court judge found that Warhol’s series is […]

Taylor Swift Says Plaintiffs Can’t Sue In ‘Shake It Off’ Copyright Suit

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Photo Credit: Eva Rinaldi / CC by 3.0 In August, Taylor Swift submitted sworn testimony in one of the several copyright infringement lawsuits she’s faced over “Shake It Off.” Now, the Pennsylvania-born artist’s attorneys have […]