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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…
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Song theft claim against Mariah Carey's Christmas classic re-filed with US courts
Songwriter Vince Vance has re-filed his song-theft lawsuit which claims Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ rips off an earlier song he wrote which even has the same title…
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Sony sues cosmetics brand over unlicensed use of music in social media posts
OFRA Cosmetics has been sued by Sony Music for using tracks in its social media posts without licence - the major is seeking statutory damages which could come in at just under $50 million…
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Appeals court revives copyright case over Fortnite emote
The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in the US has revived a copyright claim made by choreographer Kyle Hanagami who accuses Fortnite of ripping off a dance sequence he created for Charlie Puth’s ‘How Long’ video in one of its emotes…
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Bandcamp union files complaint with federal agency over redundancies
The Bandcamp United union has filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board after none of the eight Bandcamp employees who had been leading union negotiations with management were offered jobs by new owner Songtradr…