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Federal Court Finds Jimi Hendrix Relatives Guilty of Trademark Infringement

Dylan Smith
January 13, 2021
Jimi Hendrix in 1967 (public domain) A New York federal court has found two relatives of Jimi Hendrix, Leon Hendrix and his daughter Tina Hendrix, guilty of trademark infringement. Digital Music News obtaine... Read More...
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A federal court has ordered mega-ISP Cox Communications to pay the entire $1 billion copyright infringement penalty that a jury levied against it in December of 2019, as part of its years-long courtroom confr... Read More...
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An appeals court has upheld a November ruling on New York's ticketed event ban. Photo Credit: Bill Oxford In November, Digital Music News was first to report that a judge had invalidated New York’s controvers... Read More...

Nicki Minaj Faces $240 Million Lawsuit for Allegedly Stealing “Rich Sex”

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Nicki Minaj is facing a $240 million lawsuit for allegedly stealing her 2018 “Rich Sex” track – and allegedly failing to pay an agreed upon 15 percent of the royalties associated with “I Endorse These Strippe... Read More...

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

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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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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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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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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...
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