Intellectual Property Protection

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...

Scottish alt-rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain (JAMC) is suing Warner Music Group (WMG) for $2.55 million over the Big Three record label’s alleged failure to return the copyrights from 17 tracks. The Jesu... Read More...

Roblox is facing massive copyright infringement litigation from major music publishers including Universal Music Publishing, Concord, Downtown, Peermusic, Kobalt, and Reservoir. Polygram Publishing, Big Mac... Read More...

Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group have jointly filed a lawsuit against Norwalk, Connecticut-headquartered Frontier Communications over the ISP’s alleged failure to “addre... Read More...

The copyright infringement lawsuit that rapper Josh Stone filed against Ariana Grande in January of 2020 has officially been dismissed with prejudice. To recap, Josh Stone – known professionally as DOT – al... Read More...

São Paulo, Brazil's Itaim Bibi district. Photo Credit: Francisco Anzola Last fall, amid a far-reaching crackdown on YouTube stream-ripping websites as well as “fake stream” companies, the music industry compe... Read More...

Cox Communications has officially appealed the $1 billion music-piracy verdict that a jury levied against it in December of 2019. To recap, the underlying courtroom confrontation kicked off back in 2018, wh... Read More...

Benny Blanco, Halsey, Khalid, and Ed Sheeran are facing a lawsuit for allegedly infringing upon American XO’s “Loveless” track in their 2018 “Eastside” effort. American XO member Shane Williams and Californi... Read More...

Spotify is facing a patent infringement lawsuit from Guvera. Photo Credit: Puria Berenji Australia-based music-streaming platform Guvera has filed a firmly worded patent infringement lawsuit against Spotify, ... Read More...

A Tennessee federal judge has officially denied a request by Seattle-based blues singer Anita White to dismiss or transfer a lawsuit filed against her by the country trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum. ... Read More...

Photo Credit: Alexander Shatov The Beijing Meishe Network Technology Company, “a smart video and audio total solution service provider,” has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against ByteDance as well as... Read More...