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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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Alec Baldwin and “Rust” movie producers sued by family of cinematographer who was killed
The spouse and children of a cinematographer shot and killed on the established of the movie “Rust” is suing Alec Baldwin and the movie’s producers for wrongful demise, their attorneys mentioned Tuesday. Legal professionals for the relatives of Halyna Hutchins introduced the lawsuit filed in New Mexico in the name of Hutchins’ husband, Matthew Hutchins, and their son, Andros, at a Los Angeles information meeting. At the very least a few other lawsuits have been filed above the capturing, but this is the to start with specifically tied to one particular of the two people today shot. The “reckless carry out and charge-cutting measures” of Baldwin and the film’s producers…
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Lego is being sued over a tiny jacket in its Queer Eye set
Queer EyePhotograph: Christopher Smith/Netflix Lego commenced releasing branded sets decades back, obtaining an massive stage of achievement with its Star Wars collection, but in new several years it started off branching out into branded sets that are explicitly aimed at adult collectors—like several Pals sets and the Seinfeld condominium. That presumably demands a additional complex licensing offer than Disney/Lucasfilm asking for one more plastic X-Wing, which has now led to a strange challenge with a Lego set dependent on the loft from Netflix’s Queer Eye reboot. As described by The Trend Law, an artist named James Concannon has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Lego about its plastic recreation of…
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