by Hisham El Mawan | Mar 15, 2018 | Copyright, Entertainment
British-Liberian artist Lina Viktor is suing Kendrick Lamar, SZA, and Top Dawg Entertainment (“TDE”) for using some of her paintings in the music video for “All The Stars” without her permission.1 In particular, Viktor claims that the video for the song from the Black...
by Hisham El Mawan | Oct 16, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment
Davide Suppo via Compfight Chance The Rapper has become Chance The Defendant. Last month, Abdul Wali Muhammad, a former jazz musician who now works as a civil rights lawyer, sued the Chicago-based hip-hop sensation for copyright infringement.1 The alleged infringement...
by Hisham El Mawan | Apr 17, 2017 | Copyright, Entertainment Law
Turns out that some funny business can occur in, well, the business of being funny. Conan O’Brien – host of his own talk show on TBS, former writer and producer for The Simpsons, and more famous than Andy Richter – was sued for copyright infringement back in July of...
by Hisham El Mawan | Oct 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Can someone sue me already?” That’s a question that Kanye West asked on Twitter back in June.[1] The tweet has been deleted, but the issue has remained on the minds of many since he released the music video for “Famous” in July.[2] The video for a song that has...
