Photo Credit: RCA Childish Gambino is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over his rap song, “This is America.” Rapper Emelike Nwosuocha, who performs as Kidd Wes, says the song copied his track “Made in America.” The track was released two years before Donald Glover debuted “This is America” as Childish Gambino. Glover has yet to […]
Back in October of 2017, one Kevin Brophy Jr. sued Cardi B over the back tattoo of a model (the6atsix) featured on the cover of her Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 mixtape. Now, after nearly four years of litigation, the parties are officially set to enter settlement talks in August. In the long-running courtroom confrontation […]
Nirvana is facing a lawsuit for copyright infringement for the design of a t-shirt released in the ’90s. Jocelyn Susan Bundy is suing Nirvana LLC and several other companies over the t-shirt image. The suit says the t-shirt appropriates an image created by Bundy’s grandfather – C.W. Scott-Giles. The drawing appeared on prominent Nirvana merch […]
Photo Credit: Constru-centro / CC by 4.0 Michael Jackson’s image is only worth around $4 million, according to U.S. tax courts. That ruling is much lower than the $161 million estimate assessed by the IRS and disputed by the Jackson Estate. Ruling on the value of three assets at the time of Jackson’s death in […]
Photo Credit: Zhang Kaiyv Back in June of 2020, the EU’s European Commission announced that it was opening two antitrust investigations into Apple. Now, the Commission has officially accused the Cupertino-headquartered company of distorting “competition in the music streaming market as it abused its dominant position for the distribution of music streaming apps through its […]
Photo Credit: AJeong_JM / CC by 4.0 BTS and their label HYBE are being sued for copyright infringement by a Florida man. The lawsuit is over the reality K-pop series I-Land, which is a survival-type show that BTS appeared on. Florida resident Bryan Kahn is suing BTS and their label, saying they ‘stole’ his idea […]
About one month ago, former Republic Group president Charlie Walk named law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres (KBT) in an over $60 million complaint for the allegedly “botched representation” that he received ahead of his departure from UMG. Now, the New York City-based law firm is demanding that Walk and his legal team withdraw the suit. […]
Music power-manager Wayne Kamemoto has officially won his legal battle against LA-based business-management firm NKSFB, as the court has granted his request for a preliminary injunction and denied the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration. Wayne Kamemoto – who began serving as a business manager at David Weise and Associates in 2005 – submitted the underlying […]
Photo Credit: Dirk DBQ / CC by 2.0 Warner Music Group is asking a judge to dismiss the Dwight Yoakam copyright ownership dispute. Yoakam’s lawsuit against WMG seeks to reclaim the rights to his debut album. However, WMG says the singer doesn’t own the rights to two of the songs on the album and that […]
An aerial shot of Exumas, The Bahamas, the site of Fyre Festival. Photo Credit: Lee Robinson Nearly 300 individuals who attended the ill-fated Fyre Festival are set to receive up to $7,220 payments from a class-action court settlement – though the precise compensation amount remains unclear and could end up being far less than the […]