Sony Music has sued Triller Inc. for alleged copyright infringement, saying the TikTok rival refused to pay millions for licensing songs like Doja Cat’s “Say So” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.” New York-based […]
Photo Credit: Jørund Føreland Pedersen / CC by 4.0 Rapper Offset is suing label Quality Control over the right to control his solo catalog. Offset has filed a lawsuit that accuses Quality Control Records of […]
George Lopez. Photo Credit: Maggiejumps George Lopez has officially become the latest comedian to sue Pandora for copyright infringement amid a broader rights-related battle. The 61-year-old actor and stand-up star just recently submitted the straightforward […]
Housing inequality takes many forms, but it never ended. Source: Jeff Greenberg / Getty Even when Black people follow the rules to pursue the American dream, the game remains rigged. For a Black professor who […]
Rap Snacks is being sued over its Nicki Minaj-branded potato chips. According to Reuters, Mattel Inc. filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court last week, alleging the popular snack brand infringed on its long-standing Barbie trademark. […]
You can talk about Oprah, but don’t go ripping off her signature logo — that seems to be the message being sent by the media mogul herself in a new lawsuit. The legendary talk show […]
Photo Credit: Ranjith Alingal Google is suing Sonos over its voice control technology, claiming it violates Google patents. The move follows Sonos’ successful lawsuit against Google for at least five Sonos patents. As a result […]
Netflix is suing the songwriting team behind The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, which is based on the streamer’s hit series Bridgerton, for infringement. Deadline reports the streaming giant has filed a lawsuit against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear in […]
Legendary house music artist Marshall Jefferson has launched a lawsuit against Kanye West on the basis of alleged copyright infringement. The complaint, filed in New York’s U.S. District Court, alleges West sampled Jefferson’s 1986 song “Move Your […]
SoundExchange is officially suing LiveOne and Slacker for allegedly failing to pay owed royalties for streams from the last five-plus years. SoundExchange, which collects digital performance royalties for recordings used on non-interactive music platforms (i.e. […]
Billboard has learned the estate of late legendary hip-hop photographer Chi Modu filed a lawsuit Friday against Universal Music Group over its use of a photo of Tupac Shakur in a blog post. The suit […]
Photo Credit: The Come Up Show / CC by 2.0 Singer-songwriter H.E.R. is suing her label for release, citing a California statute limiting contract term length. Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, known professionally as H.E.R., has filed […]
More than 11 years after signing to MBK Entertainment at the age of 14, H.E.R. is suing to be released from the label. In a lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles County Superior Court on […]
Kanye West is facing a lawsuit after a Texas pastor sued the rapper for sampling his sermon on “Come to Life,” a standout track from Ye’s 2021 album Donda. TMZ reports Bishop David Paul Moten has filed a […]
Photo Credit: Frank An (NetEase Building) China’s two largest DSPs are fighting. NetEase Cloud Music has sued Tencent Music. Here’s what we know. NetEase’s Cloud Music has sued Tencent Music Entertainment, accusing the latter of […]
Shared from bossip.com. Jerry Jones is being sued by a Texas woman who claims he is her biological father and paid her mother for years to keep it a secret. Source: Richard Rodriguez / Getty […]
Shared from www.latimes.com Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The immediate issue: whether the company, owned by Google parent Alphabet […]
Shared from www.cnn.com The lawsuit, filed Monday in Texas’s Harrison County District Court, argues that a now-shuttered Facebook (FB) photo-tagging feature failed to get Texans’ informed consent before gathering their facial recognition data. The feature […]
Shared from www.tmz.com Brad Pitt says Angelina Jolie double-crossed him by secretly selling her interest in a winery they jointly owned … sold it to a Russian oligarch, and he’s now suing her to undo […]
Shared from Movies The family of slain “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and other film producers Tuesday, blaming the tragedy on cost-cutting measures and reckless behavior by Baldwin […]