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Ticketmaster Fined $10 Million for Hacking Into a Competitor’s Servers and Stealing Information

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December 31, 2020
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Ticketmaster has been fined $10 million for allegedly hacking a rival ticketing platform and stealing sensitive information between 2013 and 2015, the Department of Justice announced in a formal release. Fed... Read More...

Cardi B Wins $30 Million Lawsuit Against Former Manager

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December 28, 2020
Cardi B has emerged victorious in a years-running lawsuit against her former manager, Klenord “Shaft” Raphael. Shaft levied the firmly-worded complaint against Cardi B (whose full name is Belcalis Almánzar) ... Read More...

Tekashi 6ix9ine Still Hasn’t Responded to a $5.3 Million Canceled Concert Lawsuit

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In July, Digital Music News was first to report that Tekashi 6ix9ine had been named in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a canceled 2018 concert. Now, because the rapper and his team allegedly failed to resp... Read More...
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YouTube Finds a ‘Smoking Gun’ Against Pirate Monitor In Content ID Litigation

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The YouTube logo. In a new legal filing, YouTube indicated that it has found a “smoking gun” against Pirate Monitor, which levied a massive class action lawsuit against the Google-owned video-sharing platform... Read More...
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Will Twitch Users Face Prison Time for ‘Felony Streaming’?

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Harry Fox Pushes Back Against Allegations In Eminem vs. Spotify Lawsuit

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Washington, D.C.'s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. In addition to a felony streaming law, Congress’s newly passed $2.3 trillion stimulus and spending package includes ... Read More...
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YouTube Doesn’t Have to Share the Emails, IP Addresses, or Phone Numbers of Its Infringing Users, German Court Rules

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Berlin, Germany. Photo Credit: Stefan Widua A German court has ruled that YouTube doesn’t have to identify the personal information (email, phone number, IP address, etc.) of users who upload copyrighted cont... Read More...

Michael Jackson Estate Forces HBO Into Arbitration In ‘Leaving Neverland’ Defamation Lawsuit

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Nearly two years after filing a $100 million Leaving Neverland defamation lawsuit against HBO, the Michael Jackson estate has forced the matter into arbitration. The Ninth Circuit recently ruled that the muc... Read More...

Judge Rules That Ticketmaster Can’t Be Sued Over Its Terms of Service Because One of the Terms Is That You Can’t Sue Ticketmaster

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A federal judge has ruled that an angry customer who filed a class-action complaint against Ticketmaster is unable to take the matter to trial because the Live Nation-owned company’s terms of use (TOU) contai... Read More...
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Shia LaBeouf Breaks His Silence on FKA Twigs Abuse Allegations

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Lil Wayne Faces $20 Million Lawsuit from Ex-Manager and Attorney

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Photo Credit: Megan Elice Meadows / CC by 2.0 Lil Wayne is facing a $20 million lawsuit from his ex-manager, lawyer and former Sony Music exec Ronald Sweeney, for allegedly failing to pay management fees as w... Read More...
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