The United States District Court in the Southern District of New York has delivered a win to book publishers in their legal action against the Internet Archive.

The court granted granted summary judgement for publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, and rejected the summary judgement request from the IA.

The publishers were suing the IA for allegedly infringing their copyrights in 127 books by scanning print copies of the works and l...

Suniel Fox and Henry Strange, members of the electro duo Epikker, who sued The Weeknd two years for copyright infringement over his 2018 track 'Call Out My Name', have filed a motion Los Angeles federal court in which they inform the court that they have reached a settlement with Defendant. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

“The parties have reached a settlement in principle of this action. Because the parties are still in the process of formalising, executing, and consummating that...

A US District Court dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Nickelback and music publisher Warner Chappell Music by singer and songwriter Kirk Johnston, from the band Snowblind Revival, who claimed that the Canadian rock band ​copied his 2001 song 'Rock Star' in their namesake song, released on Nickelback’s 2005 album 'All the Right Reasons'. 

Johnston argued in the May 2020 lawsuit that the lyrics of the songs had similarities in the description of rock star's lives. In add...