Analysis News ‘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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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.
News 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
News 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
News 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
Analysis News 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
News 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
News Mary J. Blige’s ‘Real Love’ subject of copyright infringement lawsuit filed against UMPG A new lawsuit alleges the composition of Mary J. Blige's 'Real Love' uses a sample from The Honey Drippers without permission
News Major labels’ $1bn copyright win against Cox Communications overturned on appeal A federal appeals court in Virginia has overturned a 2019 verdict against Cox Communications
News Sony Music sues Whitney Houston biopic producers over alleged unpaid song licenses Sony Music says the producers of 'Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody' never paid for using Houston's music in the bopic