London's High Court has dismissed a claim for infringement of copyright and performers’ property rights brought against Sony Music Entertainment UK related to the studio recordings of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Noel Redding Estate Ltd and Mitch Mitchell Estate Ltd, the two companies claiming to have acquired intellectual property rights from the estates of the late Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, filed a lawsuit in February 2022 in London against Sony Music, seeking to assert their ownership...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into leading streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music, over "alleged payola schemes in which they accept bribes to artificially promote certain songs, artists, or content." The office of the Attorney General said in a statement that the investigation was motivated by "a range of activities [that] have been identified as payola, including record labels or artists paying to be includ...

A two-decade long legal case is finally coming to a conclusion, courtesy of the European Court of Justice. The European Union's high court ruled that a non-licensed use of a two-second sample from Kraftwerk’s 1977 track 'Metall auf Metall' on Moses Pelham-produced 1997 single 'Nur mir', performed by Sabrina Setlur, was legal under the EU's provision on "pastiche." The case was initiated by electronic-music composers Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider from German pioneering band Kraftwerk in 1999....