A federal judge weighs in for the first time on a sweeping copyright lawsuit filed against Twitter/X by music publishers.
In this week's Legal Beat, a court throws out a $1 billion judgment for the Big Three, Kanye claims Adidas is "suing" him, Steven Tyler beats decades-old allegations and much more.
In this week's Legal Beat, Sony sues over the Whitney biopic, Kanye's song gets pulled from streamers, Cam'ron loses a lawsuit over a photo of himself and much more.
Rights holders for James Brown and Sly Stone also didn’t approve the use of their music on the new album, while many licensing discussions are still ongoing.
The music giant says the companies that made Whitney's biopic signed a sync licensing deal, but then never actually paid the required fees.
Greg Perry claimed Ricch's 2019 megahit ripped off a 1975 soul song, but a federal judge now says the two tracks have "significant dissimilarities."
With Ozzy Osbourne and Donna Summer now threatening lawsuits over illegal sampling, an earlier copyright case against Ye has been voluntarily dismissed.
“We get so many requests for these songs, and when we saw that request, we just said no way," she tells Billboard.
A jury is set to decided whether celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D infringed intellectual property by using a copyrighted photo of Davis as the basis for a tattoo.
A Brooklyn rapper says the song is "strikingly similar" to his earlier track - and that she and her producer had plenty of chances to hear it.
