UMG, Sony, and Capitol launch copyright lawsuit against Internet Archive

Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League to clear the name of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The billionaire had previously blamed the organization for losing advertising revenue.

There’s a new update about the Yesterday lawsuit involving Ana de Armas.

Last Friday (August 25), a copyright case against Future was tossed, Billboard reports. A lesser-known rapper from Virginia, DaQuan Robinson, claimed that Future copied him on his 2018 track “When I Think About It”.

R. Kelly’s legal troubles continue.

As expected, a US appeals court has revived lawsuits filed against companies owned by the Michael Jackson Estate by two men who claim that, as children, they were sexually abused by the late pop star.To date, that litigation has been stalled by legal technicalities. However, as the lawsuits now proceed, a legal rep for the estate insisted on Friday that “we remain fully confident that Michael is innocent of these allegations, which are contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration”.James Safechuck and Wade Robson both accuse Jackson of abusing them as children.

A woman who lived with her killer fiancé to help detectives gather vital evidence against him is to launch legal action against police.

Michael Oher‘s former football coach is speaking out about the NFL star’s legal petition against the Tuohy family.

Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Internet Archive describes it as a hub for “the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records”.In the lawsuit filed on August 11, the labels claim that the project violates copyright laws by stating “transferring copies of those files to members of the public, Internet Archive has reproduced and distributed without authorization Plaintiffs’ protected sound recordings”.The plaintiffs, who also include Arista Music, Concord Bicycle Assets and CMGI Recorded Music Assets, are seeking damages of up to $150,000 per infringed track.

FIFTY FIFTY have spoken out for the first time since the start of the lawsuit against their label Attrakt.On August 17, handwritten statements in both English and Korean allegedly from FIFTY FIFTY were posted on a brand-new Instagram account without a profile picture. A representative of the girl group have since confirmed that the letters were indeed written by the members, per Herald Pop.In their letter, FIFTY FIFTY said they decided to “put our hesitation aside and [step] up to share our position” due to the “[confusing] current media and press coverage”.“Misunderstandings and accusations have been snowballing.

LOONA member Chuu in her contract lawsuit against Blockberry Creative.Today (August 17), several South Korean news outlets reported that the 23-year-old idol has won her lawsuit against the K-pop agency over her exclusive contract. Chuu had initially filed for a provisional injunction to suspend her contract with Blockberry in January 2022, which was accepted by the court.The 12th Civil Division of the Seoul Northern District Court has now officially nullified her contract with the agency.

Sandra Bullock out of the ongoing legal drama between Michael Oher and the Tuohy family. Aaron, who played Oher in the 2009 hit film, spoke out about his former co-star, who took home an Oscar for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the film about the NFL star and the family who took him in. Oher filed a lawsuit against the Tuohy family on Monday, alleging that they tricked him into a conservatorship shortly after he turned 18.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with company and that it should drop the lawsuit against him.

Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels are suing the nonprofit Internet Archive over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.

Tyrese Gibson has filed a lawsuit against Home Depot.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Offset has filed to dismiss his 2022 lawsuit against Quality Control Music, the label to which Migos was signed, according to legal documents obtained by Variety. The documents, dated August 4 and filed Tuesday call for immediate dismissal with prejudice. TMZ first reported the news; reps for Offset and Quality Control declined comment when contacted by Variety.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Capitol Music Group and Motown Records have entered into a partnership with Glass Window Entertainment, the label founded by multiplatinum rapper Dominique “Lil Baby” Jones, with rapper Rylo Rodriguez as the first artist signed to the partnership. Terms were not disclosed, although sources tell Variety it is a multi-million-dollar deal.

Lizzo issued a response to the lawsuit that was filed against her by former dancers from her team earlier this week. However, a new report revealed what’s going on with her camp behind the scenes.

One of the former dancers involved in the lawsuit against Lizzo is addressing a resurfaced clip of herself speaking favorably about the hitmaker.

Lizzo has broken her silence regarding the lawsuit filed by several of her former dancers against her, her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc. (BGBT), and Shirlene Quigley, the captain of her dance team.On Thursday, the 35-year-old «Truth Hurts» singer, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, shared a statement on Instagram, responding to the allegations.

Leah Remini is suing the Church of Scientology. On Wednesday, the 53-year-old actress filed a California lawsuit against the church she's long spoken out against for civil harassment, stalking, intentional inflection of emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relationship, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, defamation and false light.