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 […]
Photo Credit: Jako Janse van Rensburg Google must pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company’s smart speaker patent, a jury verdict determined on Friday. Smart speaker company Sonos has won its ongoing legal […]
Photo Credit: Drew de Fawkes / CC by 2.0 Ed Sheeran expressed the toll the Marvin Gaye copyright infringement case has had on him, saying he’s “done” with music if he loses. British singer-songwriter Ed […]
Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” copyright infringement lawsuit is still ongoing. CNN Business reports that last Thursday, the 32-year-old got on the stand to play his guitar and sing the first line of the song […]
Photo Credit: Kathi Rud / CC by 2.0 As Ed Sheeran’s high-stakes copyright infringement trial continues, the plaintiff collapses suddenly in the courtroom. The copyright infringement case in which Ed Sheeran is being sued for […]
Photo Credit: Eva Rinaldi / CC by 2.0 Jury selection begins in Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ copyright infringement lawsuit in New York, which alleges that the 32-year-old singer’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ bears more […]
Photo Credit: Calitore A California judge has ruled that Google must face a trial in the patent lawsuit brought by Sonos. Inc. against the company. The case is set for trial on May 8 and […]
Madrid, Spain. Photo Credit: Asqueladd Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Ultra Records are officially suing Moody Recordings for allegedly releasing an infringing version of a track entitled “Dancin” in violation of a years-long licensing agreement. […]
A copyright infringement lawsuit against Childish Gambino over his hit This Is America has been dismissed. Gambino, the musical stage name of actor Donald Glover, was sued by Emelike Nwosuocha, who performs as Kidd Wes, […]
Photo Credit: Pari Dukovic Back in September of 2021, The Weeknd was named in a copyright infringement lawsuit over 2018’s “Call Out My Name.” Now, approximately 18 months later, the involved parties have settled. The […]
Photo Credit: Thakingdome / CC by 3.0 A federal judge has officially dismissed with prejudice a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Nickelback in 2020 over “Rockstar.” District Judge Robert Pitman just recently signed off on […]
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: 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: 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 […]