30 Sep, 2024 Trump in a “River of Trouble” for Infringing Copyright in Classic Isaac Hayes Song By Brian Murphy Since 2020, Donald J. Trump and his campaign organization have regularly played the Sam & Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at campaign...
16 Aug, 2024 Predictably, an Oral License to Use Beat Track in Song Results in Copyright Infringement Case By Brian Murphy Plaintiff Brian White is a professional musician who writes and records beat tracks that he sometimes licenses to other artists. (We Got...
27 Jun, 2024 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...
11 Aug, 2023 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,...
15 Feb, 2023 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...
19 Dec, 2022 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....
22 Nov, 2022 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...
18 Nov, 2022 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”...
17 Nov, 2022 Copyright, Clearances and Concert Recordings: ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Sagan By Brian Murphy Bill Graham was one of the great concert promoters of the twentieth century. During a career that spanned from the late 1960s until his...
11 May, 2022 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...
15 Mar, 2022 How Does That Song Go Again? Lyrics Database's Claims Alleging "Scraping" in Violation of TOS Preempted by Copyright By Brian Murphy Be honest. Were you as puzzled as I the first time you (mis)heard Taylor Swift, in "Blank Space," singing about “all the lonely Starbucks...
17 Jan, 2022 Rapper Fat Joe Lost the Signed Contract ... But Still Wins Case Over Ownership of "All the Way Up" By Brian Murphy Lawyers often tell clients: put it in writing. A corollary, which often goes unsaid (but perhaps shouldn't), is: save a copy. This case...
12 Jan, 2022 “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...
07 Dec, 2021 Ninth Circuit Affirms Holding that "You Raise Me Up" is Not Substantially Similar to "Söknuður" By Brian Murphy In an unpublished, summary decision, a panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s determination that the composition You Raise...
23 Sep, 2021 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...
03 Aug, 2021 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...