A live performance from Flavour, one of the songwriters allegedly contacted by Sony Music amid a legal battle with Ultra International Music Publishing. Said battle now includes an ongoing trial as well as a separate […]
Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign maybe got snubbed for a Best Rap Album Grammy for their “Vultures 1” … but one group of Memphis rappers is claiming the dynamic duo snubbed them on credit […]
Logan Paul and KSI’s Prime Hydration is facing another trademark lawsuit, this time over the logo it created for Prime X bottles. Back in June, the popular sports drink company revealed the Prime X treasure […]
André 3000 and Big Boi, who comprise the iconic hip-hop duo OutKast, have launched a trademark infringement lawsuit against the electronic music duo ATLiens, Billboard reports. The masked, anonymous bass music tandem share a name with OutKast’s […]
High Schoolers LLC, a trademark holding company controlled by Outkast’s André 3000 and Big Boi, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Atlanta electronic dance music duo ATLiens. In the lawsuit, obtained by Pitchfork, lawyers […]
Logan Paul & KSI’s Prime Hydration has been sued by NASCAR driver Caesar Bacarella for infringing on the trademarks of his supplement company, Alpha Prime. Since its launch back in 2022, Logan Paul and KSI’s […]
The three major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group have filed lawsuits against AI start-up companies Suno and Udio alleging copyright infringement. Brought forth by the Recording Industry Association of […]
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have settled a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against them by Bruce Sudano, the second husband of Donna Summer and the executor of the late singer’s estate. Court documents—filed […]
Major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records sued artificial intelligence companies Suno and Udio on Monday, accusing them of committing mass copyright infringement by using the labels’ recordings to train music-generating AI systems. The companies […]
The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA) has issued an open letter condemning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of artists. The signatories, who span more than 200 artists, include […]
KANYE West could face a second copyright infringement after Donna Summer’s estate accused him of using her song without permission. The rapper has sampled her 1977 hit I Feel Love on the track Good (Don’t […]
Despite its many delays, Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s joint album, Vultures, has finally dropped. Unfortunately, not everyone is excited by its release. Today (February 10), in an Instagram Story, Donna Summer’s estate voiced […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’ […]
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 […]