Music industry manager Irving Azoff, who represents Pharrell Williams and more than 40 other artists, is going full throttle against YouTube over the sharing of unauthorized music. Azoff, founder of the licensing management firm Global Music Rights (GMR), alleges the web giant does not have the performance rights to about 20,000 works by the artists […]
Power couple Beyonce and Jay Z, and producer Timbaland allegedly ripped off a Hungarian singer Monika Miczura‘s song and sampled it in “Drunk in Love” without her permission, according to TMZ. The song in question is Miczura’s 1995 Roma folk song, “Bajba, Bajba Pelem,” which she claimed was used for the first 13 seconds of “Drunk in Love.” She […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby was sued Tuesday by a Southern California woman who claims the comedian molested her in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15 years old. Judy Huth’s sexual battery lawsuit does not specify how much she is seeking from Cosby, who has in recent weeks […]
Isn’t your first thought after reading the headline, “Naw, not the baby!” While I’m sure little Miss Mo’ne Davis would object to being called a baby, I hope she realizes we’re saying it with the most “motherly” intent. After all, some man and his wife is suing the Litte League team she plays on, the […]
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr’s last name is kind of being impugned by his daddy, singer Cuba Gooding Sr. It seems ’70s soul man Gooding Sr. (“Everybody Plays the Fool”) bailed on a Christmas charity concert for a children’s hospital, while making off with a bunch of cash, according to a lawsuit. TMZ reports that a […]
Damon Dash may have a good reason for filing his $25 million lawsuit against Lee Daniels, but Daniels wants to know the exact reason behind the legal drama. TheJasmineBrand.com reports that Daniels filed a response to the suit on November 12. The response is the latest development concerning Dash’s lawsuit, which claims the Roc-A-Fella Records […]
Former En Vogue singer Dawn Robinson says she will sue the Lifetime network if it airs a holiday-themed movie about the group that doesn’t include her character. The cable channel is scheduled to premiere “An En Vogue Christmas” this weekend. The fictional movie follows a family that convinces the quartet to reunite to save a […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Tracy Morgan is fighting to recover from a severe brain injury suffered in a highway crash more than five months ago, and it’s uncertain if he will be “the Tracy Morgan he once was,” his lawyer said Tuesday. Benedict Morelli said the former “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” star suffered […]
It looks like the war of the Robinson’s is over. Or, at least they appear to have called a truce. It seems that since February of this year, Smokey Robinson and his ex-wife Claudette, had been lining up to go to court and battle it out over music royalties and copyrights. Specifically, Smokey sued Claudette […]
Tisha Campbell-Martin is suing a woman over a deal she made to lease her 2007 Bentley Continental. According to TMZ, the actress bought the luxury car, but decided she didn’t want to drive it. She ended up leasing it to a woman named Belinda Baker. According to Tisha’s lawsuit, Baker agreed to pay her $90,000 […]
A background singer is claiming he penned a tune that he shared with another singer who works with Beyonce, and that song ended up in an altered version on Beyonce’s latest self-titled album. And now he wants $3 million for his troubles. At least. Ahmad Javon Lane says in his lawsuit that he wrote a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawyer for a man who was punched by Chris Brown outside a Washington hotel says he has settled a lawsuit against the singer. The Washington Post reports that John C. Hayes, the attorney for Parker Adams, confirmed on Thursday that a settlement had been reached. He did not say how much […]
