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  • Brazilian Judge Orders Global Removal of Adele’s Song Over Plagiarism Suit

    Brazilian Judge Orders Global Removal of Adele’s Song Over Plagiarism Suit

    Global music icon Adele is at the center of a legal storm after a Brazilian court ordered her 2015 song Million Years Ago to be removed from streaming platforms worldwide.
    A judge in Rio de Janeiro’s 6th Commercial Court reportedly issued a preliminary injunction last week instructing Sony Brazil and Universal Music Brazil to stop “immediately and globally…using, reproducing, editing, distribut

  • Miley Cyrus Sued Over Allegedly Copying Bruno Mars’ Song for “Flowers”

    Miley Cyrus Sued Over Allegedly Copying Bruno Mars’ Song for “Flowers”

    Pop sensation Miley Cyrus is facing a lawsuit over her Grammy-winning hit “Flowers.” The lawsuit, filed by Tempo Music Investments, alleges that Cyrus and her co-writers copied significant elements from Bruno Mars’ 2013 song "When I Was Your Man".
    According to the lawsuit, “Flowers” shares numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical similarities with Mars’ track. Tempo Music Investments, which owns

  • Indian singer Guru Randhawa sued for copyright infringement

    Indian singer Guru Randhawa sued for copyright infringement

    Rolling Stone India reported recently that Indian music producer Vikram Shapribhan Singh, aka Vee, has filed a lawsuit in the Bombay High Court against popular Indian singer Guru Randhawa, T-Series, and Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. claiming copyright infringement.
    Vee alleged that T-Series used his sound recordings, musical works, and performances without obtaining prior permis

  • Authors sue this AI company for copyright infringement

    Authors sue this AI company for copyright infringement

    Three Authors filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Amazon-backed artificial intelligence alleging that it committed "large-scale theft" in training its popular chatbot Claude.
    The lawsuit was filed by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson in a federal court in California claiming that they were not paid "a cent" for copying their work.
    They allege that Clau

  • Barkley sues Quizlet for copyright infringement

    Barkley sues Quizlet for copyright infringement

    California-based test prep company Barkley & Associates has accused flashcard-making app Quizlet Inc. of copyright and trademark infringement as well as unfair business practices.
    Barkley filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Central District of California on July 16th accusing Quizlet of copying its study resources for those seeking to become certified nurse practitioners.

  • Jeff Dieschburg’s painting, left. Jingna Zhang’s photo, right

    Photographer Jingna Zhang finally won her two-year copyright battle

    In the most recent development, Singaporean photographer Jingna Zhang won a two-year copyright battle against fine art painter Jeff Dieschburg in the Luxembourg court.
    In June 2022, Zhang filed a copyright lawsuit against Dieschburg accusing him of copying her photograph and displaying the painting at an international exhibition as well as winning a cash prize.
    However, in December 2022, the

  • World IP Day 2024: Why respecting intellectual property is key to promoting sustainable innovation

    World IP Day 2024: Why respecting intellectual property is key to promoting sustainable innovation

    Whether you are a creator or an innovator, it is crucial to get your work protected as intellectual property before you market it and get paid by vendors.
    To celebrate World IP Day 2024's theme - IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity, PitchMark hosted an interesting webinar featuring PitchMark founder Mark Laudi, legal advisor Frank Rittman and our special g

  • World IP Day 2024: How the Philippines is empowering its innovators to create intellectual property

    World IP Day 2024: How the Philippines is empowering its innovators to create intellectual property

    As the world celebrates World IP Day 2024's theme - IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity, PitchMark hosted an exciting webinar featuring PitchMark founder Mark Laudi, legal advisor Frank Rittman, and our special guest Rowel Barba, Director General of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), www.ipophil.gov.ph
    In the webinar, Rowel expla

  • The Link Between Intellectual Property and Sustainable Creativity

    The Link Between Intellectual Property and Sustainable Creativity

    The World Intellectual Property Organization observes April 26 as World IP Day each year to raise awareness about intellectual property rights and the contributions that innovation and creativity make towards social and economic progress.
    This year, the World IP Day theme is "IP and SDG's: Building our Common Future with Innovation and Creativity," which was announced by WIPO Director General D

  • Mariah Carey accused again of copying 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'

    Mariah Carey accused again of copying 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'

    Songwriter Andy Stone has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against Mariah Carey’s team claiming that her 1994 hit song “All I Want for Christmas is You" is in fact an unauthorized infringement of his 1989 release with the same title.
    The action, filed on November 1st against Carey and her co-writer Walter Afanasieff and co-defendants Sony Music Entertainment, Kobalt Music Publishin

  • Music publishers sue AI startup Anthropic over copyright infringement

    Music publishers sue AI startup Anthropic over copyright infringement

    Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord Publishing, and ABKCO Music & Records have launched a lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing them of committing direct, vicarious, and contributory copyright infringement when training its AI chatbot, Claude.
    The lawsuit, filed in the Nashville Division of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on October 18, claims that Anthr

  • BackGrid sues Audacy for copyright infringement

    BackGrid sues Audacy for copyright infringement

    BackGrid USA, a celebrity news agency, has filed a lawsuit against Audacy, a free broadcast and internet radio platform, alleging that it violated BackGrid’s copyrights in 21 pictures by posting them on its websites without authorization.
    The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the location of Audacy's corporate headquarters in September. Audacy su

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