Global music icon Adele is at the center of a legal storm after a Brazilian court ordered her 2015 song Million Years Ago to be removed from streaming platforms worldwide.
A judge in Rio de Janeiro’s 6th Commercial Court reportedly issued a preliminary injunction last week instructing Sony Brazil and Universal Music Brazil to stop “immediately and globally…using, reproducing, editing, distribut
Pop sensation Miley Cyrus is facing a lawsuit over her Grammy-winning hit “Flowers.” The lawsuit, filed by Tempo Music Investments, alleges that Cyrus and her co-writers copied significant elements from Bruno Mars’ 2013 song "When I Was Your Man".
According to the lawsuit, “Flowers” shares numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical similarities with Mars’ track. Tempo Music Investments, which owns
Rolling Stone India reported recently that Indian music producer Vikram Shapribhan Singh, aka Vee, has filed a lawsuit in the Bombay High Court against popular Indian singer Guru Randhawa, T-Series, and Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. claiming copyright infringement.
Vee alleged that T-Series used his sound recordings, musical works, and performances without obtaining prior permis
Three Authors filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Amazon-backed artificial intelligence alleging that it committed "large-scale theft" in training its popular chatbot Claude.
The lawsuit was filed by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson in a federal court in California claiming that they were not paid "a cent" for copying their work.
They allege that Clau
California-based test prep company Barkley & Associates has accused flashcard-making app Quizlet Inc. of copyright and trademark infringement as well as unfair business practices.
Barkley filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Central District of California on July 16th accusing Quizlet of copying its study resources for those seeking to become certified nurse practitioners.
In the most recent development, Singaporean photographer Jingna Zhang won a two-year copyright battle against fine art painter Jeff Dieschburg in the Luxembourg court.
In June 2022, Zhang filed a copyright lawsuit against Dieschburg accusing him of copying her photograph and displaying the painting at an international exhibition as well as winning a cash prize.
However, in December 2022, the
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