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In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, YouTube makes a surprising argument, Lionel Richie protects his voice, Diddy wins another civil case and much more.
The organizations that ended up in music licensing disputes almost never saw it coming. They were operating on assumptions that seemed reasonable at the time. The music was availab...
Global Music Rights is suing Music Choice over “willful copyright infringement” for continuing to play its catalog after its licensing expired. U.S.-based performance rights organi...
They are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented junior lawyer to join their Los Angeles-based Legal and Business Affairs team at Warner Chappell Music, Inc. (“WCM”). This r...
The original songwriters of a University of Michigan fight song are fighting back against the song’s publishers over alleged licensing interference. The realm of termination clause...
Indian weddings are incomplete without music, from energetic baraats and sangeet nights to after-parties and DJ sets. But in recent years, music licensing at weddings has become on...
Billboard is keeping track of all the bills that could impact the music industry during the 119th Congress.
Warner says the union brought the lawsuit "in an improper attempt to place a judicial thumb on the negotiation scales." Source
Universal Music and Sony Music are dramatically expanding their litigation against AI music giant Suno, claiming over 61,000 copyright infringements. Just moments after Sony Music...
A federal judge denies Meta’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement claim from Eminem’s publisher, allowing the case to move forward. After Meta filed to dismiss Eminem publis...
Founded in 2013 by Irving Azoff, GMR represents just over 175 songwriters and their publishers Source
The Artists Rights Alliance launches a campaign to pass the reintroduced Protect Working Musicians Act, including town halls and an artist-led press on the Hill. The Artist Rights...
Suno quickly seizes on Udio’s legal victory against Sony Music over admissible infringed works Last week, a federal judge denied Sony Music’s motion to expand its lawsuit against A...
One of the most closely watched copyright battles in modern music is heading to trial. A federal judge has ruled that a jury will determine whether the iconic dembow rhythm is prot...
LyricFind first sued Musixmatch in March 2025 Source
For this special episode, law graduate and artist Orian Israelsohn joined us to explain all about copyright for songwriting, including the implications brought on by artificial int...
For about 50 years, the industry believed termination only affected US rights. This ruling would make those rights worldwide for the first time. Source
Warner Music Group (WMG) is officially looking to toss the breach of contract lawsuit filed against it by the AFM, maintaining, among other things, that the agreement at the case’s...
Earlier this week, Digital Music News broke the news of a voluntary settlement proposal tied to upcoming US-based mechanical licensing rates as part of the broader Phonorecords V C...
 Digital Music News and Open On Sunday returned to Atlanta for Music Biz 2026 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. Industry leaders, executives, artists, and tech innovators...
Ouch. The attorney who sued Nelly for allegedly excluding his former bandmates from credits for his wildly successful debut solo album Country Grammar has been ordered to pay the r...
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada claims Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group violated its members' collective bargaining agreement by li...
Universal Music Group NV wrongly assumed it still owned the rights to distribute an Argentine singer's music after the termination of a distribution agreement, the singer told a Fl...
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