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Whitney Houston Movie Lawsuit, Kanye Song Dispute, Cam’ron Photo Ruling & More Legal News
The Whitney Houston movie faces a lawsuit plus Kanye, Fortnite and more top music legal news also including Cam'ron, Priscilla Presley & Gloria Trevi.
This is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between. But as we noted in this space a few weeks back, they pose a unique challenge that isn’t present for a run-of-the-mill true-life movie: you essentially must secure the ability to play the music of the star in question. The deal with Hanagami, who has worked with BTS, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears, came months after a federal appeals court issued a first-of-its-kind ruling that allowed the case to move forward toward a scheduled trial this spring.
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