Two of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)'s member companies, Cengage Group and Hachette Book Group, have filed a motion with the District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose to intervene as class representatives for publishers in the infringement case filed in 2023 by a group of illustrators and writers against Google. The case — In Re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation — is currently before Judge Eumi K. Lee in the United States District Court, Northern D...

Elon Musk's X Corp has filed an antitrust lawsuit filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas against music publishers and their trade organisation the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), accusing them of engaging in an "anticompetitive conduct." "Rather than engage in a competitive process and individually negotiate a license for their catalogues, the Music Publishers colluded through NMPA in a concerted refusal to deal with X independently. The object of ...

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed Salt-N-Pepa's legal attempt to reclaim the rights to their recordings. In their lawsuit filed in May 2025, US hip-hop act— comprised of Cheryl James, Sandra Denton and DJ Deidra Roper, who left the band in 2019 and is not involved in the proceeding — said Universal Music Group failed to revert the rights to their recordings, even though they filed termination notices three years prior for recordings made between 1986 and ...