M. Night Shyamalan was cleared of copyright infringement in the $81 million lawsuit over the Apple TV+ series Servant, with a jury unanimously ruling in favor of the director Friday. In 2020, Italian director Francesca Gregorini sued Shyamalan and the streaming servicefor copyright infringement, alleging that Servant, which ran for …
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A 22-year-old who pleaded guilty to stealing and selling unreleased music by artists like Coldplay and Shawn Mendes was sentenced to 21 months in prison, the BBC reports. Skylar Dalziel was accused of hacking cloud storage accounts linked to various artists and then selling the stolen tracks on the dark …
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Thousands of songs and music videos by hundreds of artists have vanished from YouTube after the video site failed to reach a new agreement with publishing rights organization SESAC. Artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Mariah Carey, Green Day and hundreds more were impacted by the impasse created …
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The auction for Dame Dash’s shares of Roc-A-Fella Inc. is currently at a legal stalemate. Last week, the New York Department of Social Services (NYCDSS) filed a motion with U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger asking for a pre-motion hearing to assess Roc-A-Fella’s internal records and long-term outlook. The department’s …
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Cardi B is facing a new copyright infringement lawsuit that alleges that her recent single “Enough (Miami)” used the beat from a song that featured on Reservation Dogs without permission. Joshua Fraustro and Miguel Aguilar, who record as the production duo Kemika1956, filed the lawsuit in a Texas federal court …
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Travis Scott has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over unlicensed samples, with the rapper’s lawyers claiming the allegedly infringed-upon sample — the phrase “alright, alright, alright” from the 1992 DJ Jimi song “Bitches (Reply)” — does not warrant copyright protections. Scott was sued earlier this year by Derrick …
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Rapper Roddy Ricch is the victor in a legal battle that claimed his highest-charting megahit “The Box” infringed on the copyright of a 1975 soul song titled “Come on Down.” In a biting ruling, a Manhattan-based federal judge found that “no reasonable jury could find that the works are substantially …
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Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D appeared in aLos Angeles federal courtroom Tuesday to fight claims she violated the copyright of an “iconic” portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis when she tattooed a version of the image on a friend without proper credit or compensation. The former star of reality …
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Today, Jan. 1, isn’t just New Year’s Day — it’s also Public Domain Day, where thousands of cinematic treasures, literary classics, Great American Songbook selections, and works of art see their copyrights expire and enter the public domain. The headliner this year is the fair use of Mickey Mouse — …
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A federal judge voiced concern Friday that a sprawling copyright infringement lawsuit against reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny — and more than a hundred other artists including Karol G, Pitbull, Anitta, Drake, and Daddy Yankee — could put a chokehold on the “creativity” of an entire genre of music. Still, U.S. …
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