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*Boldface Licensing + Branding, which licenses the Kardashians’ names and likenesses, is seeking emergency relief at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals after a California federal judge on Monday issued a wide-spanning injunction over its Kardashians’ line of cosmetic goods. As a result of U.S. District Court judge Audrey Collins’ finding that the Kardashians’ “Khroma” [...]
*A California judge on Thursday finally addressed the case involving a woman forced by Universal Music to take down a YouTube video of her baby dancing to a Prince song because she didn’t own the copyright to the tune. As previously reported, Stephanie Lenz uploaded a 29-second video clip of her toddler dancing to “Let’s [...]
*Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire,” currently No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and featured prominently in a current American Express commercial, is now the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed last week in California federal court. The plaintiff is Earl Shuman, an accomplished songwriter who in 1962 co-authored the composition, “Lonely Boy,” a [...]
*A woman has filed a lawsuit against Tyler Perry claiming he stole her plotline for the movie “Good Deeds,” Reuters reports. Terri Donald, who writes under the pseudonym TLO Red’ness, filed a lawsuit in Philadelphia alleging that Perry based the 2012 movie on her 2007 book, “Bad Apples Can Be Good Fruit.” Donald writes that [...]
*Jay-Z has been hit with a strange copyright lawsuit over his memoir “Decoded.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] According to the June 13th lawsuit filed in United States District Court, Patrick White is claiming that his personal computer was “compromised, resulting in my personal work to be used in Jay Z’s book “Decoded” which was [...]
*Filmmaking twins Allen and Albert Hughes have been hit with a copyright lawsuit over their Denzel Washington movie “The Book Of Eli.” According to Allhiphop.com, Georgia-based writer Bridgette Burgin has accused the brothers of stealing the movie’s premise from her unpublished work “The Final Call” after she submitted 10 chapters of the book into a [...]
*Jay Z will head to trial over allegations his hit single “Big Pimpin’” infringes the copyright of an Egyptian song released in 1957. Osama Ahmed Fahmy co-owns the rights to his uncle Baligh Hamdy’s composition “Khosara, Khosara,” and he initially sued the rap mogul in 2007, claiming Jay Z and producer Timbaland used the track’s [...]
*TV One is accusing BET and MTV of violating its exclusive rights to the Essence Music Festival, featuring performances by Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige and others, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The ambush is alleged to have happened this summer, and now TV One is taking its competitors to federal court for [...]
*Usher is in a legal dispute over allegations he stole material for his No. 1 single, “Burn,” from a songwriter named Ernest Lee Straughter, reports Billboard. [Scroll down to compare and contrast songs.] Last month, a California federal judge found there to be sufficient possibility that Usher and co-defendants who produced the song had access [...]
*Lionsgate is being sued for copyright infringement over a piece of music used in the documentary “More Than A Game,” which chronicles basketball superstar LeBron James’ rise during his high school days in Ohio. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Georgia federal court comes from Mason Hall, a songwriter who says he authored a copyrighted composition [...]
*Rihanna’s legal battle with David LaChapelle over her “S&M” music video is headed to trial after a judge in New York granted the famed photographer permission to continue his case against the singer. As previously reported, LaChapelle sued the star earlier this year over allegations her controversial video, which was banned in 11 countries across [...]
*Another photographer has come forward with allegations that Rihanna’s music video “S&M” borrowed from some of his images. In February, David LaChappelle sued the singer and her record labels for infringing the copyright on some of his photographs. Now, the singer is also being pursued by noted photographer Philipp Paulus, who is making similar allegations, [...]
*A settlement was reached between the tattoo artist who inked Mike Tyson’s face and Warner Bros, which featured a similar tatt on Ed Helms’ face in “The Hangover Part II.” Warner Bros. spokesman Paul McGuire said Monday that the movie studio and S. Victor Whitmill amicably resolved their dispute. No further details were given. Whitmill [...]
*A federal judge has declined to halt the release on Thursday of “The Hangover: Part II” as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit over a face tattoo worn by actor Ed Helms. Warner Bros said it was gratified by the decision, which would allow the highly-anticipated comedy to be released on schedule this week around [...]
*A federal judge in Pennsylvania has thrown out an author’s $100 million lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey for violating the copyright in the political booklet, “How America Elects Her Presidents.” Charles Harris claimed in a lawsuit that in 2008, as Winfrey began supporting Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, Harris sent 10 copies of his booklet to “The [...]
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