News Miley Cyrus’ motion to dismiss copyright lawsuit over ‘Flowers’ denied by court If the court had accepted Cyrus' lawyers' argument, then copyright "could never be enforced" once the original authors sold their rights, the judge said
News Sony Music sues University of Southern California over music used in social media posts Lawyers for Sony provided a list of 283 USC social media posts they say violated the company's copyrights
News George Clinton sues former business partner for allegedly withholding royalties and other claims The funk music legend’s lawsuit describes former business partner Armen Boladian as a “copyright troll”
News Sarah Silverman’s Meta copyright lawsuit advances as judge allows authors’ DMCA claims Three authors including Silverman accused Meta of copying their copyrighted materials to train the company’s large language model LLaMA
News Ed Sheeran’s second ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright case appealed to US Supreme Court Owners of part of the rights to Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' are making a last-ditch effort to appeal the long-running case to the US's top court
News Chloe Bailey hit with copyright infringement suit over ‘Trouble In Paradise’ tracks Singer, songwriter and producer 4Rest is seeking punitive damages of $5 million per track for three tracks on Chloe's second album
News Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI News organizations, book publishers, and now music companies want to join a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI being heard by a court in Delhi
News APG sues Create Music Group for alleged ‘massive willful copyright infringement’ APG alleges Create signed 'bogus' contracts with artists, plagiarized music, and filed false copyright claims with YouTube
News Appeals court rejects last-ditch attempt at reviving copyright case against Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ The appeals court has rejected a request to rehear a case alleging that Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' ripped off Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'
News Miley Cyrus asks court to dismiss copyright suit over ‘Flowers’ arguing case has ‘fatal flaw’ Cyrus' lawyers argue that rightsholder Tempo Music can't sue because they own only part of the copyright on the song
News Court asked to review Ed Sheeran ‘Thinking Out Loud’ legal victory The owner of part of the rights to Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On is arguing in front of an appeals court to reinstate a case against Ed Sheeran
News Sony Music settles Whitney Houston biopic lawsuit over alleged unpaid song licenses Sony accused the film's producers of failing to pay sync licensing fees for 24 tracks used in 'Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody'
News Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla sued by rapper Plies for alleged copyright infringement in ‘Wanna Be’ 'Wanna Be' is accused of sampling Plies' 2008 track 'Me & My Goons' without permission
News Chris Brown and Drake sued for at least $5m over alleged copyright infringement on ‘No Guidance’ 'No Guidance' has been streamed more than 1 billion times on Spotify, and viewed more than 480 million times on YouTube
News NBA teams accuse music publishers including Kobalt of ‘extortion’ in copyright dispute, claim ‘fair use’ Fourteen NBA teams have been sued by music publishers over alleged unlicensed use of music in their social media posts