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Song-thefts galore!
Published on Wednesday 9 March 2022
March is proving to be a busy month for song-theft litigation stories in the CMU Daily, what with Sam Smith being sued, and Dua Lipa being sued (twice), and the ongoing Shake It Off cases. Plus a sample case involving Drake and an aggrieved collaborator case involving Post Malone. Not to mention the big old Ed Sheeran case in the English high court. Most of these legal battles happen in California and are therefore impacted by recent precedents in the US Ninth Circuit appeals court. But it will be interesting to see how the English court rules. Though given these cases swing on musical technicalities as much as copyright technicalities, maybe we should just let this guy make a ruling on every dispute.
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