His decade’s old collaborator has sued the electronic artist Steven Zhu in California, David Dann. Dann claims his Producer Agreement with Zhu, which would give Dann a 10% commission, was breached by Zhu. Dann is asking for at least $3.45 million in damages.” Zhu’s legal team claims that Dann’s suit lacks sufficient claims to...Read More
The Vin Diesel franchise, xXx, faces a suit by a Chinese company that invested over $6M into a joint venture with The H Collective to support the fourth installation and future remakes. The Weiying Galaxy company was also supposed to acquire 100% of the foreign ticketing vendor’s derivative rights. The deal started in 2017, but...Read More
According to a new lawsuit, Smuggler, Inc., a Los Angeles-based production company, says Sony’s Epic Records owes them $187,255 for the production of Travis Scott’s music video, “Wake Up.” The video released on July 25, 2019, has had over “40 million views and is still publicly viewable,” the court papers claim. Smuggler’s lawyer argues that...Read More
Netflix’s controversy around their movie, Cuties, is on-going. First, Netflix apologized after for the “admittedly inappropriate artwork.” After it’s rollout, the film was the center of heavy criticism and petitions aiming the movie poster. A Texas grand jury is now threatening a lawsuit against Netflix under the state law forbidding “the lewd exhibition of the genitals or...Read More
Sony Music is counter-suing two musicians for the use of copyrighted images without approval. Sony claims that the artists are “pirating” their album covers, some 35 years old. The musicians, John Lyon and Paul Collins have filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony claiming that the music giant is not “systemically honoring termination notices.” Under current...Read More
