An American appeal court has ordered a new trial in a claim in which rock band Led Zeppelin are accused of copying part of an earlier instrumental track and using it in their 1971 hit Stairway to Heaven. ...
The European Parliament has, on 12 September, voted in favour of the text of the new European Copyright Directive, which aims to bring copyright law up to date for the internet era. ...
The European Parliament has, on 12 September, voted in favour of the text of the new European Copyright Directive, which aims to bring copyright law up to date for the internet era. ...
Sir Rod Stewart is facing a copyright claim by a photographer who says Stewart used her image, of the singer and an ex-girlfriend, without her permission. ...
A US court has dismissed a copyright claim that had been filed against The Shape of Water director Guillermo Del Toro and Fox Searchlight by the son of Pulitzer winning playwright Paul Zindel....
Miley Cyrus is reportedly facing a $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit from the Jamaican artist Michael May aka Flourgon, who claims that Cyrus’ 2013 hit single We Can’t Stop closely resembles a song he wrote in 1988....
Pop star Tulisa Contostavlos has won a claim against Will.i.am and Britney Spears after she was left out of the song-writing credits for Britney’s hit Scream and Shout. ...
The creators of hit TV series Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer, have been accused of taking the idea for the Netflix show from a 2012 short film by director Charlie Kessler....
The BBC has succeeded in its motion to dismiss a copyright infringement claim over its use of footage of Bill Cosby’s comedy career in a documentary about the star’s legal problems....
The family of a Pulitzer-winning playwright has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Guillermo del Toro and Fox Searchlight alleging that the Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water ...
Rapper Kendrick Lamar and R’n’B singer SZA are being sued in the US courts over their video for the song All the Stars, which features on the soundtrack to the Marvel movie Black Panther....
In this issue of zoom-in brief, Rapper Kendrick Lamar and R’n’B singer SZA are being sued in the US over their video for All the Stars, a song which features on the soundtrack to Marvel movie, Black Panther; the High Court finds Channel 5 in breach of privacy rights over their programme Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!; and stand-up comedian Louise Beaumont is sued by her estranged husband over references to their relationship....
The estate of pop star Prince says that a dispute with a producer who has sought to put out unreleased material by the artist has been resolved in its favour....
The owners of Grumpy Cat, a feline with a comically miserable expression which has become famous on the internet, have been awarded $710,000 (£500,000) in damages by a jury in California....
A Judge has declared that screenwriter Nicholas Martin is the sole author of the Hollywood comedy drama Florence Foster Jenkins, which was directed by Stephen Frears and starred Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant....