Music Law

Florida-based performing rights organization (PRO) Pro Music Rights has provided official updates on a pair of high-profile settlements that it finalized back in December of 2020, with a Chinese medical-canna... Read More...

Bob Dylan performing live. Photo Credit: Alberto Cabello In late January, Bob Dylan was named in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit for allegedly failing to honor the terms of a contract he’d inked with songwriter... Read More...

Taylor Swift and Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Evermore Park have officially dropped their lawsuits against one another. The first of the two legal actions initiated last month, when Evermore Park – which start... Read More...

One week back, Digital Music News was first to report that a judge had lifted the 60-day stay in Sosa Entertainment’s much-publicized courtroom confrontation with Spotify – presumably because their settlement... Read More...

Photo Credit: Zhang Kaiyv A federal jury has found that Apple infringed upon a Texas-based company’s patent with its FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology, and as a result, the Cupertino-headqua... Read More...

Ariana Grande. Photo Credit: Emma / CC by 2.0 Back in January of 2020, a rapper named Josh Stone (and known professionally as DOT) filed a lawsuit against Ariana Grande for allegedly infringing upon his “You ... Read More...

In January, Digital Music News was first to report that indie label Sosa Entertainment and Spotify had entered settlement talks as part of their high-profile courtroom confrontation. Now, however, a new legal... Read More...