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Linkin Park sued by early bassist
Linkin Park have been sued by former bassist Kyle Christner who claims he is owed royalties from “more than 20” early recordings that were included in a 2020 box set…
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Our round up of legal battles, courtroom drama, copyright disputes and everything else.
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Sarah Silverman lawsuit testing copyright obligations of Meta's LLaMA AI platform back in court
A US judge gave some consideration this week to one of the legal cases that is testing the copyright obligations of AI companies - the lawsuit filed against Meta by three writers including comedian Sarah Silverman…
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LA Reid sued by former Arista A&R over allegations of sexual assault
Record industry veteran LA Reid has been sued by a former colleague at Arista Records who claims he sexually assaulted and harassed her when she was working in A&R at the label in the early 2000s…
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Former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow accused of sexual assault
Former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow has been sued by an unnamed woman who says that he drugged and sexually assaulted her in a New York hotel room in 2018…
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Travis Scott and Live Nation sued by Astroworld business partner
Travis Scott and Live Nation have been sued by the Sony-allied Ceremony Of Roses, which ran the amusements at the ill-fated 2021 Astroworld festival…
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Campaign launches to support introduction of US radio royalties
The musicFIRST Coalition has launched a new Dionne Warwick-fronted campaign to garner support for the American Music Fairness Act, which would introduce a royalty for the use of sound recordings by AM and FM radio stations in the US for the first time…
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Stream-ripper gets court order to identify who is behind rick-rolling Google takedown notices
Stream-ripper Y2Mate last week got a court order forcing Google to share information about who has been issuing copyright takedown notices against its website - it suspects a competitor has been issuing takedowns to negatively impact its Google ranking…
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ISP Grande claims win after film producers drop copyright infringement lawsuit
The group of film producers who sued US internet firm Grande Communications have dropped their lawsuit against the company, despite record labels winning $46.8 million in damages in a similar case…
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Spotify two-tier payment "discriminatory and exploitative" says competition law expert
Competition law expert Amelia Fletcher has written to Spotify boss Daniel Ek expressing concern about the plan to introduce a threshold below which tracks will not receive any royalties when they are streamed…
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First Astroworld lawsuit could get to court next May
As the two year anniversary of the Astroworld tragedy passed this weekend so did the deadline for filing legal action in relation to the incident - hundreds of lawsuits continue to go through the motions, with the first set to get to trial next May…
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Amy Winehouse estate sues friends of the late musician over auctions
The Amy Winehouse estate has gone legal over the sale of items that belonged to the late musician by two of her friends…
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US senators propose new laws to ramp up the battle against ticketing bots
Two US senators have proposed new laws to better enforce the 2016 BOTS Act, which banned the use of bots by ticket touts to hoover up tickets to in-demand events from primary sellers…