Grande Communications ordered to pay $46.7m in damages to a group of record labels for infringement.
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Category archives: Copyright Infringement
So Somebody Stole Your Content. Now What?
Congress created a new copyright small claims court for enforcing copyright rights.
NLE Choppa sued by Atlanta rapper Kilo Ali for alleged copyright infringement
Warner Music Group, Alien Records and several others are also named in the suit
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Jury To Decide Ed Sheeran, Marvin Gaye Infringement Case
US district judge Louis Stanton has ruled that a jury will decide the outcome of a plagiarism lawsuit against Ed Sheeran over his No. 1 single “Thinking Out Loud.” The lawsuit, which alleges that Sheeran copied portions of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get It On,” was launched against the…
Copyright, Elon Musk and the Farting Unicorns of Doom
You can learn a lot about copyrights by reading the lame excuses Musk tweeted, then deleted, for ignoring an artists copyrights that
Ed Sheeran Sued By Heirs of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Co-Writer
According to court documents obtained by Digital Music News, several heirs to Edward Benjamin Townsend, co-writer of the Marvin Gaye’s popular hit song “Let’s Get It On,” are suing Edward Christopher Sheeran, better known as Ed Sheeran, co-writer Amy Wadge, and a long list of others for allegedly infringing on parts of the composition of […]
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The Lawyer Who Got $7.4 Million from Pharrell Is Now Suing Ed Sheeran for $20 Million
Another music industry lawsuit. This time it’s Ed Sheeran that faces the brunt of a copyright infringement lawsuit… Ed Sheeran is being sued for a massive $20 million for copying an X-Factor winner’s song, according to a report by Billboard. The massive global hit ‘Photograph’ has reportedly been swiped from Matt Cardle, the 2010 X-Factor […]
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Top 10 Illegal Sites Received 70 Million Complaints Last Year
According to Google’s transparency report, the top 10 infringing sites received 70 million complaints last year. This news comes after major copyright holders have been struggling to control massive online infringement for nearly two decades. There have been major efforts surrounding a proposed modification to the longstanding ‘Takedown’ policies, powered by a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) loophole. But, […]
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Oracle Co-CEO Says it Did Not Buy Sun Micro to Sue Google
Safra Catz told jurors that the point of the acquisition was to protect its products that relied on Sun’s software.
UK Govt: Stop Pirating Or 10 Years In Jail
UK Government says two years is not enough for copyright infringement offenses… The UK government has concluded that the punishment for online pirates should be a 10-year jail sentence, Torrent Freak reports. This decision comes after a study in March last year that was commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office. The study looked into […]
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