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Chicago’s Trax Records sued by over a dozen artists over unpaid royalties

Rolling Stone reports that Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and co-founder Vince Lawrence are among the claimants

Trax Records, the Chicago record label that played a key role in the development of house music, is being sued by over a dozen artists...

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...

More trouble for Fyre Festival...  

A Fyre Festival trustee wants their money back, and is suing nearly anyone associated with the festival to get it.  

Those being sued include Blink-182...

He faces court in the next few days...

*Update: Carola played at Pacha last night (16th May), with images of  the DJ at Music On's opening party appearing on Pacha's Instagram account...

The cost of the calamitous festival keeps getting higher and higher...

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland will need to pay up $3 million to one of his former investors, EHL Funding.

McFarland, the man behind arguably...

The court ruling comes six years after the incident...

Skrillex has been ordered to pay a fan $3.4 million after a stage-diving incident in 2012.

Jennifer Fraissl was awarded a total sum of $4.5 million after a...

San Francisco-based artist Yasminah is seeking at least $5 million in the lawsuit...

Daft Punk and The Weeknd are being sued for alleged plagiarism in their 2016 single, ‘Starboy’.

The globally chart topping track, which appeared on...

The Chinese giants also attemtped to sue 20 users of the forum Gearslutz...

Behringer tried to sue DSI for “defamation” after an employee posted “incorrect and slanderous statements” on the popular music-makers’ forum Gearslutz. According to Behringer founder...

“Yep, guilty as charged”

Goldie appeared in court via Facetime from his home in Thailand this week, pleading guilty to the assault of a security guard at last year’s...

15% of UK adults have used a ripping-service...

Stream-ripping has now been tagged as the “most aggressive form of music piracy” by PRS for Music and the Intellectual Property Office.

According to recent...

Will meowingtons.com ever belong to the mau5?

Deadmau5 has filed a countersuit against Emma Bassiri (owner) and Scott Hutchinson (manager) of meowingtons.com. He and his counsel argue the website and trademark are confusing...

Suit claims festival was "more like The Hunger Games than Coachella"...

The fallout from Fyre Festival continues with the troubled festival being hit with a $100 million class-action lawsuit, it has been announced today.

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It’s taken three years, countless gigs, umpteen rewrites, a clutch of Beatport chart toppers, and one high profile plagiarism case, but finally — finally —...

“It’s not the same album it was three years ago!” Mat Zo laughs, Skyping from his current base in the LA suburbs. “I’ve done a...

LCD Soundsystem frontman files lawsuit against DFA partner James Goldsworthy

News has emerged that relations between LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy have hardened, the ex-DFA co-boss demanding $93,899 he's reportedly owed by the partner he set the label up with in 2001.