In August, a California family filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging that the company’s ChatGPT product had “coached” their 16-year-old son into committing suicide in April of this year. According to the complaint, Adam Raine began using the AI bot in the …
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Slipknot have filed a lawsuit against the anonymous owner of the Slipknot.com domain in an attempt to reclaim the website, which is currently used to sell counterfeit band merchandise. For nearly 25 years, the anonymous cyber-squatter has sat on the Slipknot URL, forcing the actual Slipknot to instead make Slipknot1.com …
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Over a week after Venezuelan influencer Isabella Ladera alleged that the singer Beéle leaked a sex video of the two of them, she has officially filed a lawsuit against him. In it, she accuses Beéle (real name: Brandon de Jesús López Orozco) of invasion of privacy, sexual cyber harassment, intentional …
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Several major record labels and rights holders have settled their $621 million copyright infringement suit against the Internet Archive over its efforts to digitize, preserve, and share 78 rpm records. Attorneys for both sides filed the joint notice of settlement today in the California district court. It states only that …
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Neil Young and his latest backing band, the Chrome Hearts, are facing a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the prominent luxury brand, Chrome Hearts. Chrome Hearts, the brand, has been active since the late Eighties and is known for its high-end clothing, jewelry, and accessories. As for Young’s Chrome Hearts, …
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to send hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children in the U.S. to Guatemala after lawyers for the children made a pre-dawn emergency appeal for 10 of the minors, who were already boarded on airplanes. Shortly after 1 a.m. ET on Sunday, …
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The Prince estate has rebuffed a recent lawsuit filed by singer, songwriter, and Prince music Apollonia over the rights to her name, saying, “As is our duty, we will continue to protect and preserve Prince’s assets and legacy.” In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, Patricia Apollonia Kotero said the …
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Rauw Alejandro is facing a new lawsuit accusing him of not obtaining licenses for samples of several songs by reggaeton pioneer DJ Playero across his 2022 album, Saturno. Notably, the lawsuit was not brought by DJ Playero — who actively collaborated with Alejandro on Saturno — but BM Records, a …
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Gina Carano has settled her lawsuit against Disney and Star Wars company Lucasfilm over her firing from The Mandalorian in 2021 following her controversial social media posts. The former UFC star and actress, who portrayed Cara Dune on the first two seasons of the Disney+ series, was dropped from the …
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Salt-N-Pepa are speaking out about their legal battle with Universal Music Group. In a new interview with Good Morning America, the rap duo — Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton— explained their decision to sue their record company more than 30 years after first signing their contract. Salt-N-Pepa filed …
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