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Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is being sued for copyright infringement. The over $100 million lawsuit alleges that the 52-year old Pulp Fiction legend stole the premise of his 2012 film Django Unchained, for which he won an Oscar for best original screenplay, from a 2004 WGA registered script titled Freedom. The suit, which also names the Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures as defendants, was filed by Freedom screenwriters Oscar Colvin Jr. and Torrance J. Colvin. Read More »
Earlier in the year, we brought you the news that Robin Thicke was preemptively bringing legal action against the Marvin Gaye estate, due to whispers that the family was considering taking Thicke to task over the similarities between Thicke's smash hit "Blurred Lines" and Gaye's "Got To Give It Up." Read More »
Looks like Drake's the type of guy who will infringe on a jeweler's copyright. The Nothing Was The Same rapper is being sued by Baden Baden for allegedly producing knockoffs of a $50,000 owl chain made by the company specifically for the rapper. Read More »
Nicki Minaj Starships Lawsuit Nicki Minaj is the latest high-profile rap act to be slapped with charges of copyright infringement. The "Super Bass" singer is being accused by EDM producer Clive Tanaka of lifting the idea for her track "Starships" from his song "Neu Chicago." Read More »
Green Day somehow managed to weasel out of paying an artist for using their work during a 2009 tour that made them beaucoup bucks. Honestly, this is kind of sad. Dereck Seltzer, the artist behind the image "Scream Icon," sued Green Day for copyright infringement after they used an augmented version of his work as the video backdrop for their song "East Jesus Nowhere." Read More »
Justin Bieber's "Somebody to Love" is now a footnote in Biebs lore. The Usher-supported single carried on the young singer's upward trajectory toward superstardom and is nary a memory to anyone outside Beliebers. However, there is one person who remembers. De Rico, a singer who claims that Usher and Bieber stole the song from him and is asking for $10M in compensation. Read More »
