TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and impose new restrictions on how teenagers use the app, resolving the first state lawsuit against TikTok to reach a settlement over allegations that its platform harms young users.The agreement was announced Friday, September 25,... Read More »
A24 and The New York Times have joined the growing race to buy Letterboxd as the film-focused social platform heads toward a sale that could value it at more than $300 million.The two companies have expressed interest in acquiring Letterboxd, according to reports citing people familiar with the sale process.... Read More »
Aaliyah’s family fight over her music catalog has escalated into a $20 million settlement demand, competing claims over millions in label proceeds and a counterclaim tying the dispute to the 2001 plane crash that killed the singer.Her cousin Jomo Hankerson sued his father, Blackground Records founder Barry Hankerson, earlier this... Read More »
California’s oldest continuously family-owned winery has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with more than $39 million in liabilities, bringing six generations of majority family ownership to an end while the historic Sonoma Valley winery remains open.Gundlach Bundschu Winery, founded in Sonoma in 1858, entered Chapter 11 Wednesday through its operating... Read More »
The man who admitted using AI-generated music and billions of fake streams to collect more than $8 million in royalties is asking a federal judge for probation, arguing that the losses were spread so widely that no individual artist or songwriter suffered meaningful financial harm.Michael Smith pleaded guilty in March... Read More »
Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking a Los Angeles judge for extra courtroom security after the opposing lawyer in his car crash trial posted the exact time and location of his expected testimony in a “Terminator”-style social media promotion.Attorneys for the actor and former California governor filed the request Tuesday after plaintiff’s... Read More »
Chris Brown’s former housekeeper could see more than $5 million wiped from her $12.9 million dog attack award after a Los Angeles judge signaled Thursday that he intends to sharply reduce the jury’s verdict.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey P. Cotton gave little indication he would retreat from a... Read More »
Apple has been hit with a $5.7 billion patent verdict after a federal jury found that haptic technology used in iPhones and Apple Watches infringed two patents owned by Taction Technology Inc.The San Diego jury returned the verdict Friday after deliberating for parts of two days, finding that Apple infringed... Read More »
The woman who accused Jay-Z of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 has recanted the allegations under oath, telling a federal court that she never met the rapper and that none of the misconduct she accused him of ever happened.In a 12-page declaration filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court,... Read More »
Taylor Swift is urging a federal judge to dismiss a trademark lawsuit over “The Life of a Showgirl” as “nonsensical,” even after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office previously refused an application for the title based on Maren Wade’s existing “Confessions of a Showgirl” registration.In new court filings, Swift’s attorneys... Read More »
Betr, the betting platform co-founded by Jake Paul, is refusing HBO’s demand to pull a commercial reuniting former “Entourage” stars Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier, arguing that the network is trying to claim ownership over elements it previously persuaded courts were too generic to protect.HBO sent the company a cease-and-desist... Read More »
Anthropic lost its bid to overturn the Pentagon’s national security “supply chain risk” designation Friday after a federal appeals court upheld the government’s decision to exclude the artificial intelligence company’s Claude models from military systems and contracts.In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia... Read More »
Former North Carolina State University sports medicine director Robert Michael Murphy Jr. has been indicted on 32 criminal charges accusing him of sexually abusing male student-athletes while providing medical treatment, adding a criminal prosecution to years of civil litigation over allegations involving the Wolfpack athletic program.A Wake County grand jury... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Friday revived the Trump administration’s expanded voter citizenship-check system, allowing state and local election officials to again use Social Security numbers and other federal records to verify people on voter rolls weeks before the November midterm elections.The justices granted the administration’s emergency request to block a... Read More »
A Tennessee grandmother who spent nearly six months in jail after an AI facial recognition search linked her to bank thefts in North Dakota, a state she says she had never visited, is suing the City of Fargo and a police detective for $10 million.Angela Robin Lipps, 50, filed the... Read More »