Copyright Violations

Can this actually be classed as news? Let’s face it, Viacom was always going to appeal the decision in the YouTube copyright infringement lawsuit which ended in June. Because it lost. And that’s not right, surely. A Brief History Lesson Viacom first realized it had a serious problem with YouTube in 2005, even before Google acquired the site for $1.65 billion. But it didn’t take serious action until that deal went through. In March 2007, Viacom launched a lawsuit worth $1 billion, with this...Read Full Story

Google announced it had won a major copyright-infringement case in Spain on Thursday, affirming that the Internet giant is not responsible for copyright violations when users post material on its YouTube website. A federal court in Madrid, Spain, found that it is the responsibility of copyright owners – not YouTube, or Google, which owns it – to identify material that infringed copyright, Google said. The ruling mirrors one in the United States earlier this year, when Google won a nasty three...Read Full Story

Hollywood Steals More People’s Copyrights Again Judd Aptow A Repeat Offender The 2007 Universal “everything is on fire” Pictures movie “Knocked Up” starring Katherine Heigl is the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed last year. In the lawsuit, an author, Rebecca Eckler, contends her preexisting copyrighted 2004 book “Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-To Be” was infringed, down to the book cover. There are overwhelming similarities between the two and knowing Hollywood...Read Full Story

Youtube can continue to profit from rampant copyright infringement; so says a New York federal judge!Viacom's 1 billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's Youtube, has been tossed out.Citing provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Judge Louis L. Stanton of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled that Youtube was protected as long as it removed videos that were uploaded without the copyright owner's permission.Of course...Read Full Story

Kanye West can thank the court Gods that he was successful yet again with another lawsuit. Last June, Yeezy was sued by Vincent “Vince P.” Peters who alleged that he produced Kanye’s single, “Stronger” which was off of his Graduation album. Illinois Judge Virginia Kendall dismissed the copyright infringement case against Yeezy. According to the lawsuit, Peters alleges that he shared the track with John Monopoly, Yeezy’s  longtime business associate, who later played the track for Kanye...Read Full Story

Rapper 50 Cent made a hit song out of talking about how he gets money. Now another rapper wants to get some too — from 50 Cent. Lawyers for Tyrone Simmons, a rapper from Atlanta, Ga. who goes by “Caliber,” have filed a copyright infringement suit in federal court in Brooklyn. The suit names 50 Cent, along with the producer who created the instrumental beat for the 2007 hit song, “I Get Money,” and a host of music industry companies. The suit says Simmons had bought exclusive rights to the...Read Full Story

Hip-hop superproducer Timbaland has been cleared in a copyright infringement lawsuit over the sampling of a Bollywood tune. The beat-maker was sued by the owners of publishing firm Saregama India... Read More >Read Full Story

Lil Wayne’s in trouble again; but this time it’s copyright infringement that could land the “Lollipop” star back in a court of law. Country singer Karma Ann Swanepoel has filed a lawsuit in Louisiana alleging Wayne jacked her track “Once” for his single “I Feel Like Dying,” TMZ.com reports.Read Full Story

Lil Wayne’s in trouble again; but this time it’s copyright infringement that could land the “Lollipop” star back in a court of law. Country singer Karma Ann Swanepoel has filed a lawsuit in Louisiana alleging Wayne jacked her track “Once” for his single “I Feel Like Dying,” TMZ.com reports.Read Full Story

50 Cent has been named in a lawsuit by a little-known rapper over allegations of copyright infringement. Tyrone Simmons, who goes by the rap name Caliber, filed suit in a Brooklyn, New York feder... Read More >Read Full Story