A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a class action lawsuit accusing Drake of misleadingly promoting the online gambling platform Stake must instead be resolved through individual arbitration, delivering at least a temporary win for the rapper and the company. The order, issued Thursday, found that Stake's terms and... Read More »
A Munich court has dealt a significant legal setback to Suno, ruling on Friday that the AI music company violated German copyright law by training its model on songs without securing licenses from the rights holders. The decision, issued by the Munich Regional Court, hands a major victory to GEMA,... Read More »
ABC has formally urged the Federal Communications Commission to abandon what the network is calling an "extraordinary and unprecedented" proceeding targeting its broadcast station licenses, escalating a months-long standoff with the Brendan Carr-led agency over renewal reviews that ABC says were launched in retaliation for its news coverage. The Disney-owned... Read More »
Netflix is facing a $105 million lawsuit after an unreleased World War II thriller starring Nicolas Cage vanished amid a theft at the streamer's Los Angeles offices, with the filmmakers accusing the company of jeopardizing the movie's entire commercial future. The suit, filed Thursday in California federal court by producer... Read More »
Musician Afroman has turned the tables on the officers who raided his Ohio home, filing suit against one of the deputies involved in the 2022 search and the subsequent legal fight that followed. The rapper, whose legal name is Joseph Edgar Foreman, is coming off a win in a high-profile... Read More »
Jason Cloth, a Canadian financier whose executive producer credits include "Joker," "Licorice Pizza" and "House of Gucci," was indicted this week on charges he orchestrated a scheme that bilked investors out of more than $100 million.Federal prosecutors in Chicago unsealed the indictment after Cloth was taken into custody Tuesday in... Read More »
Jared Leto is facing a wave of new allegations after four women told a BBC documentary that he engaged in criminal sexual conduct with them when they were teenagers. The claims surfaced in "Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret," which premiered Wednesday and marks the most extensive public accounting yet of... Read More »
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Penske Media on Tuesday, accusing the media conglomerate of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to seize control of the Golden Globe Awards as part of a broader effort to dominate Hollywood's awards and advertising ecosystem. The suit, filed in California... Read More »
Olga Solovey, the mother of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, has died at the age of 67. Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of the Western film "Rust" in October 2021, a death that set off years of criminal and civil litigation still working its way through the courts.Solovey's death was... Read More »
A Houston nightclub security guard has filed a civil lawsuit against rapper Boosie Badazz, accusing him of smashing a glass hookah over his head during a violent, unprovoked attack that left him bleeding and requiring emergency medical treatment. The suit, filed last Thursday in Harris County against both the rapper,... Read More »
Ariana Grande has filed suit against a group of unidentified hackers she accuses of repeatedly breaking into her inner circle's devices and accounts to steal and leak unreleased music, private photographs, and video footage over more than a decade. The complaint, filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, describes... Read More »
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that the case against musician D4vd will proceed to trial, finding sufficient evidence to support charges that the singer killed and dismembered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo issued the decision Monday after determining prosecutors had cleared the "probable cause" threshold required... Read More »
A Georgia-based ticket brokerage has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations it used overseas workers and disguised digital identities to scoop up more than 100,000 concert tickets for artists including Tate McRae, Megan Moroney, Benson Boone and Metallica, then resold them at inflated prices.The FTC announced... Read More »
Rapper French Montana has put an end to a lawsuit accusing him of pocketing a Richard Mille watch worth more than $1 million and never giving it back, according to a court filing submitted Monday.The case, filed last October by Swiss businessmen Justo Obiang and Samir Gato, centered on a... Read More »
A New York judge has ordered Justin Baldoni's production company, Wayfarer Studios, to pay The New York Times more than $171,000 in damages, closing out a legal fight that began after the newspaper published a bombshell investigation into sexual harassment allegations tied to the film "It Ends With Us." The... Read More »
