California has enacted a new law that will limit the medical expenses some people can recover after accidents involving Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 623, known as the Fair Medical Billing and Rideshare Safety Act, on June 25. The law also imposes annual background-check... Read More »
President Donald Trump is rebuilding his tariff program around older trade laws that expressly authorize import duties, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the sweeping tariffs he imposed under a federal emergency-powers statute.The new strategy has produced 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods under a rarely used provision... Read More »
Sony Music has significantly intensified its legal fight against AI music platform Udio, filing a new copyright infringement lawsuit that dramatically expands the scope of its claims and raises the company's potential financial exposure to an estimated $4.5 billion. The complaint, filed on July 20, marks the latest chapter in... Read More »
As the FIFA World Cup reached its final stages, billions of fans around the world are watching, discussing, and consuming content related to the tournament. Yet compared with major cultural events such as Coachella, social media can feel surprisingly restrained. There are no endless streams of influencer brand trips, creator... Read More »
A wave of major music industry mergers over the past several months has kept some of the country's top law firms busy, with corporate, antitrust, tax and intellectual property attorneys playing central roles in negotiating, drafting and pushing the deals through regulatory review.The run of consolidation began gaining momentum in... Read More »
Desiigner, the Brooklyn rapper born Sidney Selby III, was arrested Wednesday in South Carolina on a second-degree domestic violence charge, according to Horry County Sheriff's Office records. Booking records show he was taken into custody at 2:21 p.m. ET and remains held without bail.The domestic violence charge is not the... Read More »
A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., handing a win to a coalition of states that argues the deal would violate federal antitrust law by driving up prices and shrinking the number of movies and TV shows reaching audiences.Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin issued the... Read More »
A federal judge has refused to stop Meta Platforms from laying off 26 workers who claim the company used AI-assisted systems that unfairly penalized employees with disabilities or those who took protected leave.U.S. District Judge William Orrick denied the workers’ request for a temporary restraining order Friday in Oakland, California.... Read More »
Annie Leibovitz has taken Observer Media to federal court, accusing the company behind Observer.com of running one of her best-known celebrity portraits without permission or payment for years after being told to stop.The photographer, whose 2019 image of Justin and Hailey Bieber in matching Dolce & Gabbana polka-dot outfits ran... Read More »
Madison Square Garden's parent company has filed a defamation lawsuit against Wired, accusing the publication of twisting hacked data into a false story claiming the Manhattan venue tracked celebrities' sexual orientation and gender identity as part of a surveillance database.The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Manhattan court, targets a July 9... Read More »
Elon Musk's X and a coalition of major music publishers have agreed to walk away from dueling copyright and antitrust lawsuits that had been working through federal court for more than a year, ending one of the more contentious legal fights between the social media industry and the music business.The... Read More »
A new copyright lawsuit is targeting some of hip-hop's biggest names, including Snoop Dogg, Diddy, and the estate of The Notorious B.I.G., over claims that two early-2000s tracks lifted instrumentals from a decades-old funk record without permission or credit.The complaint, filed on Tuesday, comes from two composers who co-wrote "Skatin',"... Read More »
Kanye West, now known as Ye, is once again facing legal trouble over unlicensed sampling, this time tied to a video capturing his notorious 2013 clash with a paparazzo. The celebrity photo agency Bauer-Griffin filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court, alleging that Ye, French Montana, and several collaborators... Read More »
Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield, known for standout roles in "The West Wing," "Thirtysomething," and "Revenge of the Nerds," testified before an Albuquerque grand jury that his career has effectively ended in the wake of child sex abuse charges against him, insisting throughout roughly two hours of testimony that he is... Read More »
R&B singer R. Kelly has submitted a formal clemency request asking President Trump to commute the 30-year prison sentence he is currently serving, according to records that surfaced on the Department of Justice’s website this week. The filing marks the latest legal maneuver from Kelly’s camp as they continue searching... Read More »
