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Snoop’s Cereal Killer Lawsuit, Taylor Swift Plane Tracker, Kanye’s Samples & More Legal News
Snoop Dogg sues over his cereal brand, Taylor Swift threatens a jet-tracking college student, and more music law news, including Kanye and TikTok.
The case – filed by prominent civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump — also named Walmart as a defendant, claiming that the retail giant played a key role in “the most egregious example” of Post’s alleged wrongdoing. For the first time, Billboard is expanding its peer-voted Power Players’ Choice Award to cover music’s top lawyers, and we’re asking industry members from all sectors to honor the attorney they believe had the most impact across the business in the past year. The case could dive into tricky questions about whether or not Pandora’s free ad-supported service is an “interactive” platform like Spotify, or more similar to a “noninteractive” radio broadcast – a key distinction under the law.
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