Intellectual Property Protection

Yout has refiled its lawsuit against the RIAA. Photo Credit: Alexander Shatov Last month, a federal court dismissed the aggressive lawsuit that Yout filed against the RIAA. Now, the Hartford, Connecticut-base... Read More...

A federal court has granted the RIAA's motion to dismiss the lawsuit that stream-ripper Yout filed against it last year. Back in October of 2020, Hartford-based stream-ripping platform Yout named the RIAA in ... Read More...

Photo Credit: Laurenz Heymann In March, Apple was fined a staggering $308.5 million for allegedly infringing upon a Texas-based company’s patent with its FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology. N... Read More...

Moscow, Russia. Photo Credit: Astemir Almov Earlier this month, YouTube stream-ripping websites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com – as well as their owner, Russia native Tofig Kurbanov – pushed back against an order to... Read More...

Photo Credit: Triller Back in late July of 2020, short-form video-sharing app Triller submitted a massive lawsuit to a Texas federal court, accusing TikTok and its ByteDance parent company of infringing upon ... Read More...

Photo Credit: Eva Rinaldi / CC by 2.0 Sony Music Entertainment and Chris Brown are facing a lawsuit for allegedly infringing upon 1997’s “Tight Up Skirt” in 2017’s “Privacy.” New York City-headquartered Gre... Read More...

Photo Credit: David Veksler Last month, a U.S. judge ordered YouTube stream-ripping sites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com to compile and turn over data logs as part of their long-running legal battle with the major l... Read More...

Photo Credit: Zhang Kaiyv Apple has settled the copyright infringement lawsuit that Oakland-based music-industry professional Darrell Jackson filed against it and other defendants about 14 months ago, over th... Read More...

Photo Credit: Unsplash Back in October of 2020, Princeton-headquartered RCN Corporation filed a countersuit against the major labels for allegedly issuing fraudulent piracy claims. Now, a New Jersey federal c... Read More...

A U.S. judge has officially ordered YouTube stream-ripping websites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com to compile and turn over data logs, including information about users’ locations. Judge Theresa Carroll Buchanan j... Read More...

Rihanna promoting products for Fenty Beauty, which, like Savage X Fenty, was founded in 2017. Photo Credit: SIGMA Rihanna's Savage X Fenty lingerie company is facing a trademark infringement lawsuit over its ... Read More...

Jay-Z. Photo Credit: The Come Up Show / CC by 2.0 Roc-A-Fella Records has officially filed a lawsuit against co-founder Damon Dash, who is allegedly attempting to cash out of a stake in Jay-Z’s debut studio a... Read More...