Kevin Michael Brophy Jr. is taking Cardi B to court over the image of a tattoo on the cover of her debut mixtape, “Gangsta B***h Music Vol. 1.” Brophy is seeking $5 million in damages in his likeness lawsuit, claiming defamation and privacy invasion. Cardi’s lawyers argue that the tattoo “falls under fair use, as...Read More
“Fast Charlie,” a crime drama directed by Philip Noyce and produced by James Caan, is at the center of a lawsuit between Screenwriter Lee Goldberg and Media Partners LLC and Fast Charlie Nola LLC, alleging breach of contract and seeking a preliminary injunction stopping the defendants from distributing Fast Charlie. Another part of the lawsuit...Read More
Roberts Chapman is suing multiple defendants in his lawsuit over copyright infringement in the 1995 multi-Tony Award-nominated, Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical revue “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller.” Roberts claims that his original arrangement from the production has been reproduced in many other projects without crediting or compensating him. The defendants include...Read More
Starz Entertainment sued MGM in 2020, and their lawsuit has been allowed to move forward. The lawsuit claims MGM is guilty of breach of contract for allowing its catalog of film and TV shows to run on platforms like Amazon Prime and Epix, a rival to Starz, while Starz maintains exclusive rights to more than...Read More
Streaming services: Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, and others have simultaneously removed three hit songs by Michael Jackson. The removed songs from his 2010 posthumously released album include: “Keep Your Head Up, Monster featuring 50 Cent, and Breaking News have officially been pulled due to claims that Jackson did not sing the songs.” The scrubbing of these songs is part...Read More
