DGA leaders said their upcoming contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers “promises to be an extremely challenging negotiating environment – one of the most difficult and complex we have faced in many years.” The guild’s current contract expires on June 30. While no date has been set yet for the commencement...Read More
Two of the three members of “Gap Band,” Robert and Ronnie Wilson’s heir’s suit alleges BMG is in breach of contract over unpaid royalties. Their lawsuit requests defendants pay their attorney fees, compensatory damages, and an audit of royalty payments since 2015. The filing claims BMG also has refused to provide “sufficient documentation for plaintiffs...Read More
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and fellow executive producers and AMC have reached a tentative compromise after a six-year court battle over $200M profits. Kirkman filed the lawsuit last November over modified adjusted gross receipts. The dismissal filing from Kirkman’s Sullivan & Triggs lawyers and the subsequent arbitration occurred just two months after the show...Read More
Members of the Black Sheep, a Bronx hip-hop group, have filed a class action lawsuit against Universal Music Group over approximately $750 million in royalties.” The plaintiffs, Andres “Dres ” Titus and William “Mista Lawnge” McLean, allege a “breach of contracts when UMG inked a “sweetheart deal with the streaming platform, Spotify.” The group members claim the...Read More
In Australia, Pokémon Pty Ltd is being sued by Pokémon over an NFT-based game that uses its trademark name and famous fictional world. The lawsuit is based on the fact that the Australian-based firm was unrelated to the actual Pokémon Company when they started advertising the launch of the NFT game PokéWorld, by Kotiota Studios,...Read More
