Bobby Brown sues over unauthorised footage
R&B singer Bobby Brown is suing the makers of the documentary about Whitney Houston for using unauthorised footage of him and his daughter.
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Ed Sheeran has to face the music over alleged rip-off of Marvin Gaye song
Ed Sheeran has failed in his bid to dismiss a copyright infringement suit by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who claim he copied from the R&B classic "Let's Get It On" in Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud".
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What happens when someone copies your idea for a book title?
An author has accused bestselling author Nora Roberts of plagiarising a book title of hers. But book titles cannot be copyrighted.
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Disney gets pushback on copyright of Hakuna Matata
Disney's trademark of the phrase "Hakuna Matata" is getting flak from Africans who think of it as cultural appropriation.
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Bad Choice: Netflix sued by Choose Your Own Adventure publisher
Netflix is being sued by the publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure books for copyright infringement in its Black Mirror movie.
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Fallout Shelter rip-off Westworld Mobile to shut down
A game sued by Bethesda Softworks for being too similar to its game Fallout Shelter will shut down, one week after the developer and Bethesda settled out of court.
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Korean brand sued over traditional campfire song, but who really owns the copyright?
The most recent publishers of a popular children's song are being sued for copyright infringement. But even then it's unclear who wrote it.
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Monster Energy gets a rare win in court over trademark infringement
Energy drink company Monster Energy, known for going after any other company that has words, slogans or designs that bear even a bit of similarity to its trademark, has gotten a win in court.
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Did Banksy steal from a cartoonist?
Cinders McLeod, a Canadian cartoonist, noticed similarities between Banksy’s works and some of her own when she attended an exhibit of Banksy’s works in Toronto earlier this year. She was surprised by how many of the exhibits reminded her of her own work.
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Photographer thunderstruck by photo rip-off
Photographer Sean R. Heavey claims a 2010 photo he took of a supercell thunderstorm, which he called The Mothership, was used by Netflix in their hit series Stranger Things and a Netflix feature-length movie, How It Ends. Netflix denies this. But for photographers, seeing their work reproduced is unfortunately a very common occurrence.
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Fortnite developer sued by Creators of dance moves
A rapper named 2Milly is claiming the video game Fortnite is copying his signature dance move and selling it, and he is suing the game’s developer Epic Games. In the lawsuit, 2Milly claims Epic Games is using his “Milly Rock” dance move and profiting from it by turning it into an in-game Emote called “Swipe It”. Emotes are dances that players can use in the game to express themselves.
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Apple sued by voice artist behind Hebrew Siri
A woman who provided her voice as the Hebrew version of Siri has sued Apple because iPhone users are making Siri say inappropriate things.
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