6/27/2024 3:26:22 PM Time to Face the Music? Major Record Labels Sue AI Companies over Sound Recordings Allegedly Used in Training Data By Zach Lewis Last year, when a “fake Drake” song created using artificial intelligence made major headlines, we questioned whether generative AI would...
8/11/2023 6:54:11 PM Lawsuit Against Dua Lipa Continues as Plaintiff Alleges “Just Enough” Facts By Khasim Lockhart Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” lawsuit continues. Introduction: On March 4, 2022, Larball Publishing Company, Inc. and Sandy Linzer Productions,...
2/15/2023 9:51:05 PM She Better Have My Crypto: Rihanna Streaming Royalties Offered to Limited NFT Holders By Zach Lewis Over one hundred million people watched Rihanna open the Super Bowl LVII halftime show with her multiplatinum hit Bitch Better Have My...
12/19/2022 7:04:18 PM Supreme Court May Weigh in on Third-Party Content Scraping Case By Saphya Council Since our last update in the ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC case, Genius filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S....
11/22/2022 7:55:28 PM Hold On, We’re Going…Vogue…Or Not By Khasim Lockhart Intro. Do you have a music album on the way? Have you come up with a plan to promote said album? Perhaps you considered releasing a...
11/18/2022 1:39:49 AM ICYDK: Music NFTs Also Generate Royalties By Saphya Council The newest case against American DJ 3LAU is very timely, with “music NFTs” becoming a growing trend in the music industry. “Music NFTs”...
5/11/2022 11:13:25 PM Creativity or Confession? Young Thug's Lyrics Become Focus of Indictment By Nicole Bergstrom Rapper Young Thug (given name Jeffery Williams) was arrested earlier this week in Atlanta charged with a litany of crimes, including...
1/12/2022 5:55:19 AM “A Not So Little Trademark Dispute, ft. The Rascals” By Khasim Lockhart In 1994, Spanky and Alfalfa’s friendship experienced tumultuous times when Alfalfa ditched the “boys only” club in favor of spending time...
9/23/2021 6:04:21 PM Call Out My Copyright: The Weeknd Sued for Alleged Infringement on Hit Track By Elizabeth Tuttle Newman Last week, Los Angeles-based composer/producers Suniel Fox and Shyhi Henry Hsiaio (p/k/a Henry Strange) sued R&B artist The Weeknd (aka...
8/3/2021 7:37:06 PM Bob Dylan's Co-Writer's Suit Left Blowin' In The Wind Following Dismissal By Nicole Bergstrom In December, news broke that Bob Dylan had sold his entire songwriting catalog. While Dylan isn't the only songwriter to ink this sort...
7/30/2021 2:17:38 PM She Likes It Like That: Cardi B Defeats Blogger’s Defamation Counterclaims By Elizabeth Tuttle Newman A federal judge in the Northern District of Georgia has dismissed counterclaims by blogger Latasha Kebe against rapper Cardi B (a/k/a...
7/26/2021 6:58:15 PM Pretty Please?** By Vish Mohan Dua Lipa is the latest celebrity involved in the slew of copyright infringement lawsuits related to unauthorized Instagram postings by...
4/2/2021 4:51:02 PM Can a New Copyright Registration Bypass Skidmore? By Nicole Bergstrom How does a copyright plaintiff solve a problem like Skidmore? As many readers will recall, in March 2020 (which feels like far more than...
8/27/2020 12:00:00 AM Word To Politicians: "Please [Do] Stop The Music" By Mma Afoaku 1932: "Happy Days Are Here Again" - Franklin Roosevelt (first presidential candidate to use a pre-existing popular song for a campaign)...
6/11/2020 12:00:00 AM Twitch Faces the Music: A Sudden Influx of DMCA Takedown Notices Hits Twitch By Rick Zou Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strikes are finally hitting Twitch over copyrighted music used in streams. Over the past few...
5/7/2020 10:05:50 PM “I’M [NOT] YOURS” By Vish Mohan Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz (“Mraz”) and the beer brewing company MillerCoors LLC (“MillerCoors”)...