Joseph Strange, who worked for the star from 2007 to 2021, faces years in prison if convicted on the charges.
Two little-known producers say the singer stole key elements for a song off the chart-topping album.
The music giant says that "one of the most lucrative college sports programs in the world" has refused for years to pay for music featured on its social media channels.
Melvin “4rest” Moore is suing the R&B singer, Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records for copyright infringement, fraudulent misrepresentation and more.
The lawsuit is the latest in a string of cases to claim that a legally-cleared sample featured uncleared materials from an earlier song.
Along with ABKCO and Concord, the music giant accuses TuneCore and its parent Believe of willfully infringing their copyrights to grow its business in a $500 million complaint.
An appeals court says that allowing Sheeran's accusers to proceed with their infringement lawsuit over “Thinking Out Loud” could "stifle creativity" for future songwriters.
The case is the latest to accuse a major brand of using copyrighted music in videos on Instagram and other platforms without the required synch licenses.
The lawsuit says a classic 1980s hip-hop track — a song sampled in Future's chart-topper earlier this year — infringed one of White's best-known hits.
The singer and her co-defendants argue that the holiday mega-hit shares only "fragmentary and commonplace building blocks of expression" with an earlier song.
