A California judge has thrown out a copyright lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift. Songwriting duo Sean Hall and Nathan Butler alleged that Swift stole lyrics from their 2000 song Playas Gon’ Play, written for the US girl group 3LW, for her 2014 hit Shake It Off. The 3LW hit includes the lyrics, “Playas, they gonna play...Read More
Disney is headed to court over Zootopia again. Total Recall screenwriter Gary Goldman has filed a second lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company claiming that the House of Mouse stole his “artwork, dialogue, characters (both character traits and designs), themes, settings, and plot structure,” Deadline reports. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. This is the second time Goldman’s Esplanade...Read More
The Hollywood Lawyer client, multi-talented author and upcoming showrunner, Miranda Spigener-Sapon, along with her co-writer, Ross John Gosla, had a chance to sit down with Buzzfeed to discuss her brand new book deal with Winterwolf Press and upcoming TV version of the book, Marisa Romanov. Check out the full Buzzfeed article below (and note the shoutout to our very...Read More
Ed Sheeran has been named in a plagiarism lawsuit by the writers of a hit song recorded by Australian country music star Jasmine Rae. The song “The Rest of Our Life”, which Sheeran co-wrote for US country artists Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, is accused of being an “almost note for note copy” of the song “When I Found You”, written...Read More
The star of the Oscar-nominated Hurricane Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water” has accused the makers of a Beyoncé music video of using clips from the documentary without paying royalties and, in some cases, without permission. Kimberly Roberts, a resident of the Lower 9th Ward, filed her lawsuit against Prettybird Pictures Inc. in New Orleans federal...Read More
