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Conan O'Brien is being sued in a lawsuit by Robert "Alex" Kaseberg, who claims O'Brien used four of his jokes without permission, violating copyright. The jokes were posted on Kaseberg's personal blog and Twitter, and O'Brien allegedly used similar versions on Conan. Meanwhile, Twitter has been cracking down on plagiarism, deleting copied tweets. Read More »
The Entertainment Software Association is here to say that they don't want anyone restoring older videogames who have long since been abandoned by their publishers. According to them, this is on par with hacking and Internet piracy. It looks like the long-standing war on older SNES, Sega Genesis and Gameboy roms and emulators will continue. Read More »
Rand Paul may be running for President of the United States, but believe it or not, that isn't why he's making headlines. It's being reported that the video Paul used to announce his Presidency run was pulled from YouTube due to the fact that he didn't have the rights to use the song his people put in said video –– John Rich's "Shuttin' Detroit Down." Billboard notes that the use of Rich's song is the most likely reason Paul's video was pulled from the video streaming site. The publication further notes that the Senator's people are currently "looking into the problem." Read More »
Sad times, y'all. Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell are preemptively suing the copyright holders of Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" and Funkadelic's "Sexy Ways", claiming that the defendants continue to claim that Thicke's "Blurred Lines" copied the tracks. Read More »
Anyone who has ever read the classic '80s underground chronicle Our Band Could Be Your Life knows that the members of Black Flag have never been what anyone could consider friends. Still, it's a bit surprising that things could get this nasty. Black Flag and SST Records founder Greg Ginn is taking the member's of Black Flag reunion group FLAG to court over the use of the band's name. He also threw in former Black Flag lead singer Henry Rollins, who is not involved in Ginn's incarnation of Black Flag nor FLAG, presumably because he never really liked him. Read More »
Another dramatic hip-hop feud is bubbling, and fortunately it's only in the courtroom. Black Eyed Peas leader Will.i.am filed a lawsuit against N.E.R.D. frontman Pharrell Williams for potential copyright infringement. Read More »
While Chris Brown is no stranger to trouble, and Will.i.am is certainly no stranger to being called out about his music, getting called out as a thief still has to hurt. The duo have found themselves in hot water because their new track "Let's Go" off of Will.i.am's #willpower appears to have lifted its sound from a little-heard house track called "Rebound" by producers Arty & Mat Zo. Read More »
Prince is notoriously protective of his music. The Purple One keeps his intellectual property on a very tight leash, claiming copyright infringement at the slightest whiff of a missed check. (Don't believe me? Try and find a Prince song on YouTube. I'll wait.) To be fair, streaming rates are still chump change when compared to sales royalties. But Prince's latest target may be a bit much. The funk god is taking on Twitter's mini-video app Vine. Read More »
A Canadian memorabilia dealer who worked with Michael Jackson's mother on a tribute book, and whose websites used the singer's image and music, violated copyrights held by Jackson's estate, a judge ruled on Friday. Read More »
