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 ...

Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) coordinated a legal campaign at the end of 2025 to ensure that major hospitality groups secured music licenses and respected licensed repertoire for the end of the year festivities. IPRS' law firm ADP Law Offices secured multiple injunction orders from Bengaluru Commercial Court, Calcutta High Court and Delhi High Court "to restrain unlicensed music usage to the New Year events," according to Ameet Datta, a principal at ADP Law Offices. The proceedings ta...