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Plugged to death!

Italian electronic act PLUGGER sample various well-known classic acts — Pink Floyd, The Stones, the Beach Boys, Led Zep etc — and construct tracks purely...

Ouch...

Spotify is being sued by Wixen Music Publishing for an eye-watering $1.6 billion over copyright infringement, it has been revealed.

Wixen Music Publishing looks after...

The Amazon-owned company have escalated copyright claims for unauthorised music performance

Twitch has sent out an influx of DMCA takedown notices in an apparent move to tackle unauthorised copyrighted material being used on its platform. The...

Parts of 'Metall Auf Metall' did appear on Sabrina Setlur's 'Nur Mir'... 

Kraftwerk have won a 20-year copyright dispute over an unauthorised sample from the band's 1977 track, 'Metall Auf Metall'. 

A two-second clip was believed to...

Also in licensing talks with major labels...

Facebook is in the process of building an content recognition system, a new report by the Financial Times has revealed.

The program will combat copyright...

“I care. Because I care about the work I do”

Deadmau5 has called out New Orleans “shadow rap” group $uicideboy$ for copyright infringement, after he claimed they used an “entire section” of his 2008 Kaskade...

Kanye's track is "essentially my original track with a rap laid on top" says Vasquez...

YouTube apologises for removing Lofi Girl videos due to false copyright claims

The Lofi Girl account tweeted: "We’re shocked and disappointed to see that there's still not any kind of protection or manual review of these false claims"

YouTube has apologised for wrongfully taking down popular livestream videos by the Lofi Girl channel over false copyright claims. Lofi Girl tweeted on 10th July...

The battle to release 'Who Killed The KLF?' has been waging for one year

Elusive UK dance act The KLF are engaged in a copyright dispute over the rights to use their music in an unofficial documentary, 'Who Killed...

Streaming royalty rates to be increased in the US, the Copyright Royalty Board confirms

The 44% increase to songwriter and publisher payouts will go ahead despite a 2019 appeal by Spotify, Google, Amazon and Pandora

The US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has set a new royalty rate for streaming services of 15.1% to pay songwriters and publishers for 2018 to...

It's claimed the collab violates the copyright of Freddie GZ...

DJ Snake and Lil Jon are defendants in a new copyright lawsuit filed in a New York federal court last week (4th May).

The new...

The plaintiffs are producers Suniel Fox and Henry Strange

The Weeknd and Nicolás Jaar have been sued for copyright infringement.

The pair, alongside Toronto producer Frank Dukes, have been sued by producers Suniel Fox...

The Facebook company also published new guidelines on using music on its platform

Instagram has introduced a new pop up to warn users when it detects they are using copyrighted music in a live stream. The new pop...

Producer isn’t happy after his track is removed from the service...

It would seem that no one is safe from Soundcloud’s copyright protection system after UK producer Four Tet had one of his tracks blacklisted from...

Clone wars...

Behringer has now set its sights on creating a clone of Korg’s iconic ARP 2600 synth now that the synth is now out of copyright...