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...

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...