Nate Dogg charged with stalking estranged wife
Nate Dogg has been charged with stalking and making criminal threats against his estranged wife, plus driving while suspended, his lawyer Mark Geragos confirmed.…
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50 Cent discusses custody case
50 Cent has spoken to MTV about his custody battle with former girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins, under a temporary restraining order limiting his access to their son.…
Ofcom finds Jason Donovan broke rules backing Boris Johnson
Ofcom has ruled that Jason Donovan breached impartiality rules by endorsing Boris Johnson on his syndicated radio show; GCap received a warning.…
EMI settle with InfoSpace
EMI has settled a lawsuit with InfoSpace over alleged unlicensed ringtones of its publishing catalogue, with settlement terms undisclosed.…
Former rapper sues Biggie documentary makers
William Troy McCune is suing the makers of the Notorious BIG documentary, claiming footage of his battle with Christopher Wallace was used without permission.…
Term extension proposal on schedule
European Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is still on schedule to publish proposals to extend the recording copyright term to 95 years, reportedly due in August.…
Eminem sued over alleged strip club punch
Miad Jarbou has filed a lawsuit against Eminem, alleging he was sucker-punched in a Detroit nightclub bathroom in 2006, seeking over $25,000 in damages.…
Ticketmaster win typosquatting case
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has ordered US firm Domainstand.com to hand over the misspelt domain ticketfmaster.com to Ticketmaster.…
Fifty injured after bomb blast at Belarus concert
At least fifty people were injured when a bomb exploded at a concert in Minsk, Belarus, celebrating the country's independence anniversary.…
Price and Andre win libel pay out over bad parenting claims
Katie Price and Peter Andre have won substantial libel damages from the News Of The World over claims about their parenting, which the paper admits were untrue.…
The Drifters lawsuit settled
The Treadwell family has secured a court order barring others from operating a Drifters group, and reached an out-of-court settlement with Phil Luderman and Mark Lundquist.…
Google ordered to hand over YouTube logs in MTV litigation
A US court has ordered Google to hand over YouTube viewing logs in Viacom's copyright suit, though it refused a request to reveal how the system works.…