Ludacris, Kanye West deny infringing song
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Kanye West gave a lesson in hip-hop to federal judge Thursday as he testified at a copyright infringement trial that a 2003 tune he worked on was nothing like a not-so-successful New Jersey group&#039;s song.
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A US appeals court rules against a musician who claimed Beyonce song lyrics were based on her work.
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Goodbye, litigation. Hello, partnership Just two months after Warner Music Group sued online media-sharer imeem, claiming copyright infringement, the two companies have announced a rapprochement. That's French for "the big record labels are beginning to like this Web 2.0 thing."â¦
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!
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The music industry's trying to use the current legal system to get around decisions made by legal systems past, says InfoWorld's Robert X. Cringeley. The upshot? We're all thieves -- yes, you too.
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MIAMI, FL. Tuesday Oct.12.2004 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Sunday night&#39;s Source Hip-Hop Music Awards belonged to Kanye West and Lil Jon.
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A U.S. appeals court has handed a victory to pioneering punk-rap group the Beastie Boys in a dispute over the growing musical practice of sampling, in which recording artists incorporate snippets of other songs into their own work.
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Universal Music Group, the world's  biggest record company, is stepping up pressure against popular  online sites YouTube and MySpace, accusing them of infringing  the copyrights of its artists' music videos.
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The author and two associates are accused of violating copyright laws.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - A day after reaching No. 1 on the U.S. album charts, hip-hop star Kanye West took the top spot on the singles chart Thursday.
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A record producer has sued rappers 50 Cent and Lil' Kim and two record companies for $2 million, claiming they failed to pay him royalties on a song that sold 2 million copies.
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Kanye West got beaten up by a woman on the latest U.S. pop album charts published Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - A five-year legal controversy over Eminem's 2001 track "Cleanin' Out My Closet" and Belgian violinist Raymond Vincent's 1968 "Daydream" is either nearing an end or about to spark more international litigation.
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By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection.
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Rapper Ludacris scored his third No. 1 on the U.S. pop album charts Wednesday, while Janet Jackson's new release opened with her lowest numbers in almost a decade, Billboard reported.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft downplayed Tuesday the impact of a new hack of its DRM technology, underlining the difficulties in erecting a long-lasting digital barrier against piracy. Doom9.org, a hacking forum, contained a post last Friday from "Divine Tao," presumably the hacker responsible, with download links for the updated version of FairUse4WM. The program, which was released last August, strips the DRM technology that limits how Windows Media files can be used and prevents illegal file sharing. "Microsoft is aware of the DRM issue, and the breach response team is verifying the circumvention," said a company statement. Windows Media DRM is used, for example, on songs sold through online song retailer Napster. Songs purchased from there can't copied to more than three computers, but there are no restrictions on how many times an individual song can be burned to a CD. Hacking activists argue they created FairUse4WM since they deserve broader freedom to move legitimately purchased content from device to device. Removal of the DRM, however, also allows the files to be copied without restriction or uploaded to file-sharing networks, which the recording industry believes has caused a massive sales decline. Microsoft has updated its DRM technologyÂ at least twice before to halt the effectiveness of FairUse4WM and said its DRM system is designed to support dynamic updates. The updates do not require a new release of Windows Media Player or the Windows Media Format Software Development Kit, used by developers to employ the DRM system, Microsoft said. Microsoft did not give a timetable as to when it may update Windows Media DRM to block the latest version of FairUse4WM. Nonetheless, the company acknowledged the DRM system's inherent vulnerability to hackers. "Microsoft has long stated that no DRM system is impervious to circumvention, a position Microsoft's content partners are aware of as well," the company said. Microsoft filed a lawsuitÂ in a district court in Seattle last September against 10 unnamed defendants for copyright infringement related to the release of FairUse4WM. The suit, however, was later dropped after the defendants could not be located. Record labels are increasingly considering removing DRM from their songs after years of lawsuits and legal wrangling have done little to reduce illegal file sharing. In April, EMI Group said it would sell songs on Apple's iTunes Music Store without DRM. The DRM-free songs cost about 20 percent more but are also encoded at 256Kbps, a higher quality than other songs with DRM.
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Veteran daredevil Evel Knievel is  suing rapper Kanye West for trademark infringement over a music  video that depicts the Grammy-winning recording star as "Evel  Kanyevel" trying to jump a canyon on a rocket vehicle.