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Even more good news for original copyrighted songs. Jessica Cornish, better known as Jessie J, has knocked down the lawsuit against her. According to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, no, she did not steal a melody from a Santa Barbara indie band. The entire lawsuit began back in 2012 when Will Loomis from the […]
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Back in December of last year, Tesla had announced that it would be providing voice-controlled access to Spotify’s streaming platform right from your car. While European Tesla vehicles have been able to enjoy the feature, it’s been noticeably absent here in the States. Well, not anymore. Sources close to the company have told Electrek that […]
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There’s no more free Tidal here. TiDown, your friendly, everyday Tidal downloading tool designed to help you download Tidal songs (illegally) has been shut down by Tidal. This comes days after it was officially released on GitHub. Speaking with TorrentFreak, German teenage coder Lordmau5 said, “I recently looked into some potential APIs and found out […]
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There’s no more free Tidal here. TiDown, your friendly, everyday Tidal downloading tool designed to help you download Tidal songs (illegally) has been shut down by Tidal. This comes days after it was officially released on GitHub. Speaking with TorrentFreak, German teenage coder Lordmau5 said, “I recently looked into some potential APIs and found out […]
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It was a complicated week in the lawsuit scene, a surprisingly solid week for Spotify and Twitter, and a pretty bad one for Chris Brown. Here’s the music business weekly wrap-up… The past week in the music business has been like a wild roller coaster. You got on it without realizing it was malfunctioning. First, […]
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Jerry Heller, portrayed by Paul Giamatti, defending the original members of N.W.A against police harassment in Straight Outta Compton. Like rap music itself, the legacy of one of its biggest promoters, Jerry Heller, is also steeped in controversy and debate. Calling Jerry Heller a ‘pioneer’ of rap is enough to draw intense controversy, though his […]
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You can’t write a false story, publish, retract, and then say you’re sorry… A Virginia judge has ruled today that the lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine must go forward. Attorneys for the magazine had tried to have the $25 million suit dismissed. Rolling Stone first published “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle […]
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You can’t write a false story, publish, retract, and then say you’re sorry… A Virginia judge has ruled today that the lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine must go forward. Attorneys for the magazine had tried to have the $25 million suit dismissed. Rolling Stone first published “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle […]
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How safe is your copyright harbor? BMG is striking back after two American internet ISPs tried to get a declaratory judgment for their cases against BMG. The companies in question are RCN and Windstream. In June, RCN filed the declaratory judgment so that RCN can be found as not having contributorily infringed on any of […]
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This Lemonade apparently didn’t stand. CBSNews is reporting that a New York judge made the decision to toss out a Kentucky filmmaker Matthew Fulks’s claims that the trailer that went with Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” actually stole ideas from a short film that he had made. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff threw out the decision after apparently Fulks […]
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