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Universal Music Sued For Allegedly Underpaying Spotify Royalties
Universal Tunes Team (UMG) is officially experiencing a course-action lawsuit for allegedly “depriving artists of the royalties they are contractually owed” – to the tune of a staggering $750 million in “unlawfully retained” payments from Spotify streams. Andres Titus and William McLean, rappers who carry out and release music jointly as Black Sheep, just recently submitted the breach-of-agreement grievance to a New York federal court. Black Sheep signed with PolyGram in the summer months of 1990, for every the motion, and introduced an RIAA qualified Gold album referred to as A Wolf in Sheep’s Outfits the subsequent 12 months. “The Preference Is Yours (Revisited)” is claimed to be the most…
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An Artist Sued Maurizio Cattelan for Allegedly Copying His Duct-Taped Banana. A Miami Judge Just Allowed the Case to Proceed
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan unsuccessful to halt a lawsuit proclaiming that he copied a further artist’s get the job done in his viral sculpture of a banana duct-taped to a wall. A federal courtroom in Miami on Wednesday denied Cattelan’s motion to dismiss the litigation brought by American artist Joe Morford alleging that Cattelan’s Comic infringes the copyright of his individual do the job, Banana & Orange. United States District Decide Robert N. Scola, Jr., mentioned in his ruling: “Thankfully for the court docket, the query of irrespective of whether a banana taped to a wall can be artwork is far more a metaphysical issue than a authorized one. But…
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Singaporean model says she’s ‘shattered’ after artist allegedly used her likeness in a nude painting
Singaporean product and artist Duan Mei Yue accused Russian artist Angelina Poveteva of thieving her graphic and working with it as the reference for a nude portray that offered for $10,000. Duan took to Instagram and TikTok to point out the likeness of Poveteva’s painting, titled “Time to Open Your Eyes,” to a photograph taken of her when she was 18-several years-outdated. “She place it on sale for $10,000. Not only that, she has also put it up for exhibition where hundreds of persons have posed and taken pics with it like I am some variety of Oriental freak demonstrate,” Duan explained in her TikTok online video. She also shared…