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...

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California has upheld an earlier ruling finding that the Paramount Pictures-produced 2022 movie 'Top Gun: Maverick' did not infringe a 1983 magazine article written by the late Ehud Yonay. The article, about the US Navy's pilot training school in San Diego, served as the inspiration for the original 1986 'Top Gun' film and was initially licensed by Yonay to Paramount in 1983. Yonay's widow Shosh and son Yuval terminated the Assignment of Rights in...

Nine news organisations have filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. Plaintiffs include California Newspapers Partnership, Prairie Mountain Publishing Company; MNG-BH Acquisition; Hartford Courant Company; The Daily Press; The Morning Call; Virginia-Pilot Media; Los Angeles Daily News Publishing Companies; and the San Diego Union-Tribune. In the lawsuit, Plaintiffs complain that “hundreds of thousands o...