The Calcutta High Court has found in favour of the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) by dismissing telecom provider Vodafone Idea's appeal of a lower court decision which ruled that a separate license from IPRS is required for underlying music and lyrics from recordings when they are communicated to the public. IPRS Chairman Javed Akhtar welcomed the ruling. “We are delighted with this decision and thank the Hon’ble Court for this stellar Judgement," said Akhtar. "It is a landmark moment wh...

Book publishing houses Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishing Group and McGraw Hill, alongside author Scott Turow, have filed a putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Meta and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for willful copyright infringement of millions of textual works, including literature, educational works, and scholarly articles, that have allegedly been used to develop Meta’s Llama large langu...

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...