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Musi was kicked off the App store over copyright infringement allegations, now it’s accusing Apple of a ‘backchannel scheme’ to remove it

Apple cited complaints from IFPI, NMPA and Sony Music in defending its decision to remove Musi from its App Store

OpenAI just won a copyright battle brought by two news outlets. What could this mean for the music industry’s lawsuits against AI firms?

Some observers say the ruling weakens music companies' claims against AI developers, but the OpenAI case is very different from the music cases

Madlib sues former manager for alleged ‘rank self-dealing’ and ‘pervasive mismanagement’

The rapper has asked a California court to dissolve his businesses that have been run for years by record exec Egon

‘Works for hire’? Jury trial to decide if 2 Live Crew’s members, heirs have any right to its music

2 Live Crew's members and their heirs are fighting to take back the recording copyrights on the 1980s rap band's music

Universal Music sues Chili’s restaurant chain owner over alleged copyright infringement in social media ads

The restaurant chain's owner Brinker reported $4.42 billion in revenue for the fiscal year ended June 26, 2024

Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst sues Universal for $200m over alleged unpaid royalties (report)

Durst's complaint alleges he was never paid royalties, despite the major commercial success of Limp Bizkit's early albums

After raising $50m for its US IPO in 2021, Kuke gets sued by classical music group Naxos for alleged $1.8m in missed payments

Naxos says Kuke made regular payments until December 2021, and then the payments stopped

Free streaming app Musi sues Apple over removal from App Store

The legality of Canadian-born Musi has been an issue ever since it was launched a decade ago

Tempo Music sues Miley Cyrus (and half the music industry) for allegedly copying Bruno Mars’ ‘When I Was Your Man’ on megahit ‘Flowers’

Numerous music streaming services, along with Live Nation and Disney, are named as defendants in the copyright infringement suit

K-pop giant HYBE asks court to unmask YouTubers accusing its artists of ‘plagiarism’

HYBE has filed defamation lawsuits against seven YouTube channels that it says have damaged the company's and artists' reputations.

Spotify asks court to dismiss MLC lawsuit over cutting pay rate to songwriters via premium bundles

In a new court filing, Spotify calls much of The MLC's case against it "irrelevant" to the legal dispute at hand

Internet service provider Altice settles $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit with music companies

Altice says it plans to "vigorously defend" against a separate lawsuit brought by Warner Music and Sony Music

Gloria Gaynor sues music producer for alleged copyright infringement, breach of contract

Gaynor alleges that producer named in lawsuit is falsely claiming to own the rights to a number of her works

Could Spotify lose the crucial ‘bundling’ lawsuit filed by the MLC? It all comes down to these legal arguments…

Spotify could easily lose the lawsuit failed against it... but still win in the long run

TikTok sues US government over ‘unconstitutional’ divest-or-ban law, says sale by ByteDance is ‘impossible’

The Chinese government 'would not permit' the sale of TikTok's code to a non-Chinese company, the complaint alleges