The sale of the James Brown Estate (music rights, real estate, image) ends a four-year with Primary Wave Music. The contract enshrines The James Brown 2000 Trust’s support for charitable and educational programs like marginalized youth scholarships. Postmortem lawsuits since 2006 have held up the scholarships he wanted to share with children of South Carolina...Read More
Netflix’s high-quality dubbed version of the South Korean zombie thriller #Alive is under fire for copyright infringement by the Hollywood Innovation Group. The film was hugely successful in South Korea and on Netflix. Still, when Hollywood Innovation Group released their English version, it tanked, and they claim now that Netflix infringed “on the plaintiff’s exclusive...Read More
Charming Beats is suing Apple Music over copyright infringement, “false and misleading advertising,” and associating a company with transphobia.” In 2017, Charming Beats took legal action against Apple for this. Today, Beats claims that Apple has profited from infringing on the copyright of two songs in their catalog. “”Anything You Synthesize,” and “Caramelo” by French...Read More
Firooz Zahedi recently challenged Miramax’s copyright claim to the iconic Pulp Fiction movie poster, which he took in 1994 at his home. A judge has decided that Zahedi waited too long to make this case. And Miramax claimed that he was a work-for-hire photographer and had no rights to the photo. District Judge Dolly Gee...Read More
Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny is suing a South Florida artisanal beer company, Unbranded Brewing Company, for illegally using his name, image, and likeness to market one of its brews, San Benito. Bad Bunny claims this is a play on his real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, under which he goes by as a producer....Read More
