NFT site HitPiece accused of selling musicians’ songs without permission

Britney Spears has reportedly signed a “record-breaking” deal to publish a tell-all book in which she will detail her career and family.The pop star was released from her 13-year court-ordered conservatorship last year and has been outspoken about her family’s treatment of her on social media since.According to Variety, publishers Simon & Schuster has agreed on a deal with Spears that will see them publish her memoir. The book will share the pop star’s own accounts of “her rise to fame, her music career and her relationship with her family”.Page Six also reports that the deal was secured after a bidding war with multiple other publishers and is worth as much as $15million (£11m).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaHillary Rodham Clinton has done a lot in her long career. But until now none of the tomes written by the former secretary of state, U.S. senator, first lady and winner of the 2016 popular vote have gotten the big screen treatment.

Britney Spears has revealed she was invited by members of Congress to meet and discuss her much-publicised conservatorship, which was finally terminated after 13 years in 2021.Yesterday (February 16), Spears shared a screenshot of a letter sent to her from two members of Congress, Florida’s Charlie Crist and California’s Eric Swalwell, on her Instagram account.Dated December 1, 2021, the letter begins by congratulating Spears and her lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, on their “historic victories” following her conservatorship’s termination on November 12.Crist and Swalwell go on to say they were “elated” when Spears’ father, Jamie, was suspended as her conservator last September, and again when the conservatorship ended entirely. The letter then acknowledges the issues present in many conservatorships that Spears’ case helped spotlight.“Especially troubling was news that, for years, you were unable to hire your own counsel to represent your personal and financial interests,” it reads.

Britney Spears was invited by two U.S. lawmakers, Democrats Charlie Crist of Florida and Eric Swalwell of California, to “meet with us in Congress” and share her struggle to end the conservatorship her father Jamie oversaw that controlled much of her life.

Wow, this is a HUGE unexpected development!

Melania Trump is flat-out denying a new report about her alleged non-nonprofit activity!

Seth Rogan totally gets why many people don’t care about Hollywood stars giving themselves a pat on the back. The actor revealed that he sympathized with people who won’t be tuning in at this year’s Oscars.The Academy Awards, known as the movie industry’s biggest night of the year, has experienced a drop in viewership over recent years. "I don’t get why movie people care so much if other people care what awards we give ourselves," the "Pineapple Express" star told Insider on Thursday.

Naman Ramachandran Protagonist Pictures has closed multiple deals for several key territories on Sundance selection and Berlin Film Festival competition title “Call Jane.”Territories sold include DCM for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Umbrella Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand, Mis.label for Scandinavia, Eagle for Italy, Shaw for Singapore and Empire for South Africa.Directed by Phyllis Nagy, the Oscar nominated writer of “Carol,” the film stars Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Mara and Chris Messina. The film follows Joy (Banks), a traditional 1960s housewife who unexpectedly falls pregnant and finds the Janes, an underground abortion movement led by Virginia (Weaver).

Not over. Jesse Williams and his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, are still locked in a custody battle more than one year after finalizing their divorce.

NFT website Hitpiece has been hit with legal action after several artists criticised it for allegedly auctioning off their music without their knowledge or permission.The website was showing hundreds of what appeared to be active auctions for NFTs tied to artists’ albums and songs, from iconic artists such as The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Bob Dylan to smaller independent acts.The move led to a backlash from artists with Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz and Sad13 tweeting: “Hey you stupid fucks, we don’t have any deal with you or any NFT site and there SURE DOES LOOK like an active auction going on for a speedy ortiz song.”Bleachers‘ Jack Antonoff added: “Any bleachers NFTs are fake. At the moment I do not believe in NFTs so anything you see associated with me isn’t real.

Rumors spread in November 2021 that Christine Quinn faked her pregnancy, and her Selling Sunset costar Mary Fitzgerald understands where speculation came from.

HitPiece, a website accused of offering NFTs of songs, came under scrutiny on Tuesday after musicians accused it of minting the NFTs without their permission. NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, are digital certificates of ownership that are stored in a database called the blockchain.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe small and powerful Sundance drama “A Love Song” has found worldwide distribution in Sony’s Stage 6 Films and Bleecker Street, Variety has learned exclusively.The acclaimed two-hander about love, loss and loneliness is led by Dale Dickey (“Winter’s Bone,” “Hell or High Water”) and honorary Academy Award winner Wes Studi (“Hostiles,” “The Last of the Mohicans”).The film, sitting at 93% Fresh on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, marks the writer-director debut of Max Walker-Sliverman. Bleecker Street will release the film to domestic theaters this summer, while Stage 6 is currently charting the international release strategy.Dickey plays Faye, a wanderer who stations herself at an idyllic \ campsite in the Colorado Mountains – cooking simple meals, retrieving crawfish from a trap, and scanning her old box radio for a station.

KMBC reports.Last year, Utterback joined a growing trend of conservatives across the country demanding the removal of LGBTQ books from school libraries, often under the guise of objecting to “sexual content.”During an October 2021 school board meeting, Utterback attempted to convince North Kansas City School District to remove lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home, which chronicles her childhood in rural Pennsylvania, claiming it contained sexual material.In video of the meeting, Utterback can be seen holding boards showing enlarged images from Fun Home while standing alongside Northland Parent Association president Jay Richmond.Richmond demanded that Fun Home be removed from libraries and suggested that the board could be accused of solicitation of a minor for stocking the graphic novel due to its “descriptions and pictures of oral sex.”After students protested the attempted book ban, Utterback told KMBC, “I definitely understand their struggles. It’s not lost on me.

Seth Meyers used to hold the most appearances behind Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update desk.

Chris Brown, 32, is being accused of “drugging” and “raping” a Jane Doe on a yacht that was docked at the Star Island home of Diddy, 52, in Miami, Florida, on December 30, 2020. In court documents obtained by HollywoodLife, the victim –who is seeking $20 million in damages in the suit — said that this was the first of several alleged violent encounters, as she insists she was verbally assaulted by the singer one year later, in August 2021, at his home in Los Angeles, California.The Jane Doe, who only identifies herself as a “professional choreographer, dancer, model, and musical artist” from Los Angeles, said in the court documents that she was on a trip to Miami when she was contacted via FaceTime by a friend.