The European Union (EU) is less than a month away from voting to introduce aggressive new online copyright laws and “widespread censorship” measures, which critics say could strangle new media websites and stifle satire and online meme culture.
A ten-hour long YouTube video consisting of nothing but pure white noise has received five copyright complaints since it was published.
Following a series of infuriated social media posts by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, the artists responsible for the breakout summer pop hit “Despacito,” Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro once again used the song to promote his regime this week.
Potentially thousands of Pornhub users could be exposed by a court order which seeks to reveal the identities of those who uploaded copyrighted pornographic material to the site.
Beyonce Knowles is facing a $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the estate of late New Orleans rapper Messy Mya, who claims the pop megastar sampled his voice without permission on her hit song “Formation.”
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page denied stealing the riff from his band’s massively successful hit 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven” when he took the stand Wednesday to testify in a copyright infringement case brought by the rock band Spirit.
Just days after a California court ordered Pharrell Williams to pay Marvin Gaye’s estate millions of dollars for copyright infringement, the artist could find himself in the midst of another unhappy legal drama. A Los Angeles jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s
