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Michael Jackson Ruling, Snoop Dogg Copyright Suit, Etheridge Cannabis Case & More Music Law News


A Michael Jackson ruling, a Snoop Dogg sampling case and more music law news involging Melisssa Etheridge, Soulja Boy, Kanye West and Chris Brown.

This week: Michael Jackson’s estate scores a victory in litigation over a $600 million catalog sale; Snoop Dogg is hit with a copyright lawsuit that cites Tracy Chapman; Melissa Etheridge faces a legal battle from her partners in her failed cannabis business; and much more. Billboard ’s Robert Levine breaks down the fair use doctrine and how it might be applied to the new frontier of training artificial intelligence models, particularly in the wake of high-profile cases involving Google Books, the Android operating system and an Andy Warhol print of Prince. CHIPPING AWAY – Attorneys for Live Nation asked a federal judge to dismiss part of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit — specifically, that the concert promoter uses illegal tying arrangements to operate its amphitheaters.

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