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📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawA Federal Judge Rules Diddy Can Pursue His $100M NexStar Suit Over the 'Baby Oil' Claim — Settlement Talks Now on the Table
The judge tossed the flash-drive allegations but let the baby-oil claim proceed, and both sides now have until September 24 to decide on settlement.
The Docket · 10h ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Federal Judge Just Threw Out Reggaeton's Biggest Copyright Claim, Clearing Bad Bunny and Over a Dozen Others
Judge André Birotte Jr. reversed himself and ruled that a jury can't decide what a copyrighted work is when the plaintiffs never pointed to one — though a narrower sampling claim survives.
The Docket · 2d ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Federal Jury Clears Lil Durk of Every Charge. He's Still Not Coming Home.
Jurors rejected the case that Durk ordered the 2022 ambush on Quando Rondo after three days of deliberation, but a racketeering trial starting October 5 keeps him in custody.
The Docket · 3d ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Jury Asked the Judge What 'Intent' Means. He Told Them to Use Common Sense.
Two days into deliberations, jurors are stuck on the exact language of the stalking charges in the Chicago rapper's murder-for-hire trial.
The Docket · 4d ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawA Judge Threw Out Kodak Black's Fleeing Case Because the Deputy Never Actually Stopped Him
Broward prosecutors alleged Bill Kapri evaded a February traffic stop; the judge ruled there was never a lawful stop to evade in the first place.
The Docket · 5d ago
📷 AI-generatedLawCarmen Bryan Sues N.O.R.E., Alleges Sexual Assault at a 1999 Manhattan Club
The suit, filed under a New York law that revives decades-old claims, says the 2023 Cassie/Combs case moved her to come forward now, and names Jay-Z as the person who nearly confronted Santiago that night.
The Docket · 5d ago
📷 AI-generatedLawT-Pain Is Suing Akon's Label Again — Same Contract, Same Complaint, Bigger Number
Eight years after his first lawsuit and just over a year after settling it, T-Pain says Konvict Entertainment is stiffing him on royalties again — this time for nearly $500,000.
The Docket · 6d ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Fate Is Now in a Jury's Hands — Here's What They Actually Have to Decide
Deliberations began Wednesday after two days of closing arguments that turned a shooting case into a fight over a 1946 conspiracy doctrine. What the jury sends out in a note will say almost as much as the verdict itself.
The Docket · 6d ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Closing Arguments Turn on an 80-Year-Old Doctrine — and a Judge Already Opened the Door to Appeal It
As both sides made their final pitch to the jury Tuesday, the real fight wasn't just over what Durk did — it was over how far the law lets a conspiracy charge reach when he never pulled a trigger.
The Docket · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Trial Reaches Its Final Stretch — Closing Arguments Start Tuesday
After both sides rested last week, Judge Michael Fitzgerald has set the date: closings begin September 8, deliberations the day after.
The Docket · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawOnline Piracy Costs the UK 9,400 Nurses a Year, If Pirates Keep Their Word
A new UK industry report says illegal streaming costs the government the equivalent of 9,400 NHS nurse salaries a year. This missed tax money is linked to a broader £1.35 billion a
The Docket (wire) · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDuane "Keefe D" Davis Is Guilty — Tupac Shakur's Murder Finally Has a Verdict
Three decades after his death, the only prosecution ever filed in Tupac's killing has ended in a first-degree murder conviction, with sentencing set for October.
The Docket · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawAdult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific ‘John Doe’ Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta. The adult film producer wants to link the two lawsuits, arguing that
The Docket (wire) · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawACE Targets Dozens of Streaming Pirates Through Cloudflare and Discord Subpoenas
Through the Motion Picture Association, anti-piracy coalition ACE has requested two DMCA subpoenas at California federal courts. One covers 49 Cloudflare-fronted domains including
The Docket (wire) · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawRCN Urges Judge to Toss the Major Labels’ ‘Last’ Piracy Liability Lawsuit
Internet service provider RCN has asked a New Jersey federal court to reconsider a six-year-old ruling and dismiss the major record labels' piracy liability lawsuit. RCN argues tha
The Docket (wire) · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedLaw“A Cute Little LibGen Babysitter”: Music Publishers Sue Anthropic Founders Over Torrenting Spree
Anthropic's bulk torrenting of pirated books from shadow libraries LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror continues to generate new lawsuits. A group of major publishers, including Sony
The Docket (wire) · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawTake-Two Says GTA 6 Leak Probe Is “Rapidly Evolving,” Wants New Discord Demands Under Seal
Take-Two has informed U.S. federal courts that its investigation into the GTA 6 leak is "rapidly evolving." On the heels of its Netflix preview, the gaming company filed a new DMCA
The Docket (wire) · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawKanye West Wants a Jury to Judge a Racism Case Without Hearing His Own Words
His lawyers are asking a judge to keep his Nazi and antisemitic posts out of a former Donda Academy guard's discrimination trial.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawJermaine Dupri Sued Sony for $18 Million Over Mariah Carey and Usher Royalties. Two Months Later, He Quietly Dropped It.
The So So Def founder alleged two decades of concealed accounting. Then, without explanation, both sides said the matter was resolved.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Lawyers Spent Two Days Trying to Break His Own Crew's Story
Brian Steel's cross-examination of cooperating witness OTF Jam turned up a changed answer, a broken separation order, and a jailhouse push to reach a co-defendant.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawProsecutors Could Have Arrested Keefe D in 2009. They Told the Detective to Stand Down — and Closings Are Monday.
The defense's entire one-day case in the Tupac murder trial turned on a detective who says he had probable cause 14 years before anyone was charged.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawKeefe D's Defense Rested After One Day — Because His Own Words Had Already Done the Damage
Closing arguments in Tupac Shakur's murder trial are set for Monday, and the defense never tried to out-argue Duane Davis's confessions — only the police work behind them.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Own Cooperating Witness Just Put Him in the Room — and Prosecutors Backed It With an Unreleased Video
Kacey 'OTF Jam' Hester took the stand this week and named Durk directly. Jurors also saw an unreleased music video prosecutors call a revenge confession; the defense calls it a poem.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawProsecutors Just Rested Their Tupac Murder Case — and It Was Built Almost Entirely on Keefe D's Own Words
Twenty-four witnesses and nearly eight hours of Duane Davis's own recordings later, the state closed its case Wednesday. His defense opens Thursday; closing arguments are set for Monday.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Detective Just Told Jurors Why Keefe D Didn't Need to Pull the Trigger to Be Guilty of Killing Tupac
As the state nears the end of its case, a former Compton gang detective testified that Duane Davis held final say over any shooting his crew carried out — the legal theory prosecutors need without a confirmed shooter.
The Docket · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawThe Filmmaker Who Interviewed Keefe D Just Became the Prosecution's Best Witness
Week two of the Tupac murder trial opened with the documentarian behind Duane Davis's most damning interviews testifying his subject wasn't performing for cameras — he was telling the truth.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDetectives Traced Lil Durk's Alleged Shooters Through a Rental BMW's GPS — and a Pair of Pants
Prosecutors spent day three of Durk's murder-for-hire trial building an evidence trail from luxury-rental GPS logs to a Chicago streetwear boutique, with Machine Gun Kelly watching from the gallery.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawTupac's Murder Trial Moves Past Keefe D's Own Words — Into Death Row's Inner Circle
Week two opened with testimony from Death Row's former head of security, pulling the trial deeper into the culture that surrounded Tupac the week he died.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Trial Just Opened — and Prosecutors Led With His Own Song
Opening statements began Monday in downtown LA, with prosecutors framing 'Pissed Me Off' as evidence of intent and the defense calling it grief, not a confession.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Trial Moves From Picking a Jury to Actually Arguing the Case
With a jury seated after a lyrics fight that dominated the last week, opening statements in Durk's murder-for-hire trial are set for Monday.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawKeefe D's Own Voice Just Became the Prosecution's Best Witness — and He Knows It
Week one of the Tupac murder trial closed with prosecutors playing more of Duane Davis's own recorded words back to him — and Davis erupting at the attorney doing it.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawRound Hill Music Is Suing Suno and Anthropic for $1 Billion Each — Over a Catalog Hip-Hop Was Built On
The publisher's lawsuit names James Brown among the artists it says got scraped without a license — the same James Brown whose breaks built the genre.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Jury Selection Became a Referendum on Rap Music Itself
Prospective jurors in the murder-for-hire trial were screened on their views of rap lyrics before opening statements even started.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawCourt Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels
A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels. The creators filed a motion to quash the DMCA subpoena, reques
The Docket (wire) · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLaw‘Filmmaker’ Who Sued PTP, BTN, and Four Other Private Torrent Trackers May Be an Impostor
A federal copyright lawsuit targeting six of the most prominent private BitTorrent trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits, may be the work of an impostor. A
The Docket (wire) · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Trial Opens Today — and a Judge Already Let In His Own Song as Evidence
Jury selection began Thursday in the murder-for-hire case tied to King Von's death, and prosecutors will be allowed to play 'Pissed Me Off' for the jury.
The Docket · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawResearchers Hunt Telegram Pirates with AI Tool, Flag Hundreds of Channels
A new academic study offers a detailed look inside Telegram's video piracy ecosystem, spotting more than 19,000 pirated titles linked in posts that were viewed more than 4 billion
The Docket (wire) · 3w ago
📷 FlickrLawA German Court Drew the Piracy Line at 81.5%, KinoGO Was Blocked with (at least) 82.4%
Germany doesn't have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing. However, the site-blocking clearinghouse CUII stated that illegal content clearly outweighs legal
The Docket (wire) · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawPirate Streaming Giant Cineby Announces Surprise Shutdown
Cineby, one of the biggest pirate streaming sites on the web, says it will shut its doors on August 26. The site was previously flagged as a notorious piracy operation by Hollywood
The Docket (wire) · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDuane "Keefe D" Davis's Tupac Murder Trial: Opening Statements Begin
Prosecutors and the defense finally lay out their cases in Las Vegas, nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur's killing — with a paid memoir sitting at the center of both.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDrake Is Quietly Backing a Copyright Fight That Could Rewrite Sampling Law for Everyone
A judge is reconsidering whether an entire rhythm pattern can be copyrighted — and hip-hop producers should be watching as closely as reggaeton's biggest stars.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawFour Days From Trial, Prosecutors Want Lil Durk's Jury to Stay Anonymous
The August 20 murder-for-hire trial survives a judge's rebuke of prosecutors and a bid to load it with new charges — now comes a request to keep jurors' names sealed.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawBig U's Case Just Grew by Seven Felonies — Including a Second Murder-for-Hire Count
A superseding indictment accuses the jailed gang leader and music manager of plotting from behind bars to kill a witness — on top of new sex trafficking and wire fraud charges.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawThe Tupac Murder Trial Has a Jury. Opening Statements Are Four Days Away.
Sixteen jurors are seated in Duane "Keefe D" Davis's case — the closest hip-hop's coldest murder has come to a verdict in 30 years.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Murder-for-Hire Trial Opens in Six Days — After Prosecutors Failed to Load It With New Charges
A field that briefly threatened to grow into a sprawling racketeering case has narrowed back to the original allegations, with jury selection starting the week of August 17.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDiddy Countersues Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones, Alleging He Stole Documentary Footage and Sold It to Netflix
The new filing doesn't deny the underlying sexual abuse allegations directly so much as attack their origin — claiming Jones's suit followed a failed demand for money.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawWhile a Jury Decides Who Killed Tupac, a Death Row Producer Is Suing His Estate for Unpaid Royalties
Daz Dillinger says he's still owed money from 'All Eyez on Me' — a reminder that Tupac's murder trial isn't the only fight over his legacy happening right now.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Delaware Judge Just Quoted Biggie's Own Lyrics to Settle His Family's Money Fight
Faith Evans has to hand over Voletta Wallace's share of the Primary Wave catalog deal — a Chancellor cited 'Ten Crack Commandments' to explain why.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 FlickrLawKeefe D's Tupac Trial Hits Day Two of Jury Selection — And Suge Knight Goes Public
Courtroom day two was still about seating a jury, not testimony. Hours later, Suge Knight told TMZ the killing was an 'assassination' involving far more people than the man on trial.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawDiddy Has Reportedly Spent $7-8 Million Defending Himself — And the Appeal Is Still Pending
TMZ puts the legal bill for his nearly two-year federal case at $7-8 million. It's a real number, but the actual stakes remain the Second Circuit ruling nobody has issued yet.
The Docket · 4w ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawDiddy Couldn't Kill This One: A Male Accuser's Assault Suit Just Survived and Heads to Discovery
A federal judge rejected his argument that a same-gender claim can't meet New York's gender-violence law — a rare loss in a summer of mostly favorable rulings.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawTwo Songwriters in Their 70s and 80s Are Suing Snoop Dogg, Diddy and Biggie's Estate Over a 1980 Funk Sample
The lawsuit says a 45-year-old Deodato instrumental was lifted twice — once by Snoop and Angie Stone, once by Biggie — without anyone clearing it.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawKeefe D's Tupac Murder Trial Opens Today in Las Vegas, 27 Years After the Shooting
Duane Davis goes in front of a jury this week for the drive-by that killed Tupac Shakur — a case that took three delays and 27 years to reach a courtroom.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawSample Clearance, Explained: How Producers Actually Clear a Beat Without Getting Sued
Two different rights, two different owners, and one 1991 ruling that changed hip-hop production forever — here's how sample clearance actually works.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDiddy's Lawyers Want the Appeals Court to Stop Sitting on Their Case
Four months after oral arguments, the Second Circuit still hasn't ruled on whether Sean Combs' sentence stands — his team is done waiting.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawKeefe D's Tupac Trial Opens Tomorrow — Suge Knight and Nevada's Governor Are Both on the Witness List
Jury selection wraps this week in Las Vegas, and opening statements are set for Monday — nearly 30 years after the drive-by that killed Tupac Shakur.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk Gets a Fourth Superseding Indictment Two Weeks Before Trial
Prosecutors split a stalking charge in two, taking his count to seven, twelve days before jury selection.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawUMG Tells an Appeals Court Salt-N-Pepa Never Owned Their Masters to Begin With
The label's newest brief pushes back hard on the duo's bid to overturn January's dismissal.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDiddy Just Forfeited the 'Ibiza Tapes' — and Everything Else Feds Took in the Raids
A federal judge finalized forfeiture of more than 90 seized devices, $9,000 in cash, and unexplained videotapes tied to the prostitution counts.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDrake's Casino Ties Just Became a RICO Problem
A new class-action lawsuit accuses him of using Stake's tipping feature to inflate his own streaming numbers.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's August 20 Trial Survives a Prosecution Push to Load It With New Charges
A federal judge rebuked prosecutors for trying to add Chicago RICO allegations days before trial, keeping the case narrowed to one 2022 shooting.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDiddy's Release Date Just Moved Back Again — and L.A. Prosecutors Still Haven't Decided on New Charges
A second Fort Dix altercation added weeks to his sentence. Separately, the DA's office is still reviewing a publicist's sexual battery allegations.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Durk's Co-Defendants Tried to Split Off From His Trial. A Judge Said No.
The murder-for-hire case against Only the Family stays one trial, one jury, starting August 20 — and Durk stays in custody until then.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLaw'Big U' Now Faces a Solicitation-of-Murder Charge — for Allegedly Targeting a Witness From Jail
A new indictment accuses the LA label owner of trying to buy a hit on someone set to testify against him, plus sex-trafficking and wire-fraud counts.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawBoosie Badazz's Hookah Assault Is Now a Civil Suit Too
The Houston security guard he's accused of striking from behind is suing — on top of the criminal charge already filed.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawMetro Boomin's Sexual Assault Lawsuit Is Heading to Trial in September
Mediation failed. A federal judge has now set a date for the producer to face the allegations in court.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawRoc Nation Wants Megan Thee Stallion's Second Swimwear Lawsuit Folded Into the First
Two models from the same 'Hot Girl Summer' shoot say Roc Nation used their images without real consent — and now there's a fight over whether the cases should even be separate.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawSession Musicians Amend Their Suit Against UMG and Warner Over the Suno and Udio Deals
The union says the labels licensed its members' recordings to AI companies without paying for it — and the majors' motion to dismiss is now due.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawBoosie Badazz Paid $600K for a Trump Pardon That Never Came — Now He Wants Half Back
His lawsuit against the political operatives who promised to broker the deal has moved into arbitration.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawChris Brown Wants a Do-Over on the $12.9 Million Verdict He Just Lost
His lawyers filed for a new trial days after a jury sided with his former housekeeper in a dog-mauling case — a hearing is set for September.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawPlies Just Walked Away From His Own Sample Lawsuit Against Megan, GloRilla and Cardi B
The case behind 'Wanna Be' traced an uncleared sample back through three artists and 16 years — then its plaintiff dropped it without explanation.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawProsecutors Want the Jury to Watch Lil Durk's Own Music Video at His Murder-for-Hire Trial
'Pissed Me Off' is the centerpiece of a fight over whether Durk's lyrics and videos prove intent — with an August 20 trial date now locked.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawCalifornia Says Tory Lanez Can't Sue the State Over His Own Prison Stabbing
The Attorney General wants his $100 million lawsuit thrown out entirely, arguing sovereign immunity — not the facts of the attack — kills the case before it starts.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawGermany Just Handed Down Its First AI-Music Verdict — Suno Lost
Europe's first ruling on a generative-music tool: a Munich court found Suno's AI infringed six GEMA-repped songs across training, model and output — and the reasoning could follow it into its US cases.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawJay-Z's Newest Filing Accuses Tony Buzbee of Faking a Death Threat to Cover His Tracks
The $190 million suit against the attorney escalates again, with Jay-Z's team asking to add claims that Buzbee deceived both his own client and the court.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawSalt-N-Pepa's Fight for Their Own Masters Is Now in a Federal Appeals Court's Hands
Both sides have filed their briefs at the Second Circuit — the duo says the district judge answered a question she said she never reached.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Dallas Judge Just Decided Which Yella Beezy Bars Can Be Used Against Him
The fight to keep his lyrics out of the Mo3 murder trial is over — two songs are going in front of the jury.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLaw2 Live Crew's Catalog Win Just Got Erased by an Appeals Court
A bankruptcy technicality undid the 2024 verdict that gave the group back five of its own albums.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDrake's Defamation Case Just Got the Green Light to Go Digging in Kendrick's Contract
A judge is letting Drake's lawyers request UMG's record deal with Kendrick Lamar — plus material tied to allegations neither side has proven in court.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Federal Judge Just Split Diddy's Newest Trafficking Case Down the Middle
Clayton Howard's $20 million claims against Combs survive to trial. His claims against Cassie Ventura don't — for now.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawA Deposition Puts YG at the Center of Drakeo the Ruler's Killing — Again
A former security guard swears he saw YG with a knife during the 2021 backstage brawl. Days later, a SWAT team searched a property tied to him.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawLil Wayne's Pilot Witness Just Complicated His Ex-Assistant's Assault Lawsuit
A newly deposed pilot's account is undercutting the timeline behind a four-year-old private-jet altercation claim.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawTupac Shakur's Murder Trial Is Finally Set to Start — August 10, in Las Vegas
Duane 'Keefe D' Davis's case has been delayed twice; this is now the third scheduled start date.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDaBaby Takes the IRS to Tax Court Over a $1.76 Million Bill He Says Is Just Wrong
The agency wiped out over $1.6 million in deductions from his 2022 return. His team says every dollar was accounted for.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawSony Just Filed a Second Lawsuit Against Udio — Three Weeks After a Judge Blocked It From Adding 30,000 Songs to the First One
Denied permission to expand its original case, Sony took the same 30,000-plus recordings and opened an entirely new front.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawMilagro Gramz Stops Appealing the $75K Verdict Against Her — Now She Wants It Erased Entirely
The blogger found liable for defaming Megan Thee Stallion is arguing the judge should have recused herself.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawThe Reggaeton Copyright Case Refuses to Die — Now Neither Side Can Win Early
A judge just declined to hand either side a shortcut in the dembow-rhythm lawsuit dragging in Bad Bunny, Drake, and a hundred others.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawTwo Different AI-Music Rulings Are Landing This Summer — Don't Mix Them Up
A Munich court's July 31 verdict against Suno is confirmed. The bigger U.S. fight, Sony and UMG's case in Boston, is still on its own clock.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawJermaine Dupri Sues Sony for $18M, Says So So Def's Books Were Cooked for Decades
The suit accuses the label of hiding royalties on Kris Kross, Xscape, Da Brat and Jagged Edge going back to the '90s.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawDaz Dillinger Sues the Tupac Estate — and It's Not His First Fight With Death Row's Old Guard
The Death Row producer wants a full audit of 'All Eyez on Me' royalties, and he's not ruling out coming for his cousin Snoop next.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawFIFA World Cup Triggers a Global Anti-Piracy Crackdown (Updated)
During the FIFA World Cup, law enforcement and private partners across multiple continents have seized or blocked well over a thousand pirate streaming domains, arrested suspects,
The Docket (wire) · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawHollywood Wants Vietnam to Slay the Piracy Hydra
Shutting down major piracy operations such as Fmovies and HiAnime means little if successors pop up within weeks. In their submissions to the USTR's Section 301 investigation into
The Docket (wire) · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawNicki Minaj Wants Out of a $275K Lawsuit Over Her Own Production Company
24/7 Productions says it fronted the money for her Jingle Ball run and the 'Pink Friday 2' album launch and never got paid back. Minaj says that's a fight with her LLC, not with her.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDrake Is Backing Bad Bunny's Bid to Undo the Reggaeton Ruling That Could Hit Nearly 2,000 Songs
A judge sent the 'dembow riddim' copyright case to a jury. Now Bad Bunny's team — with Drake, Maluma, and others behind them — wants that ruling reconsidered, or sent straight to an appeals court.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawThe AI-Music Copyright Fight Hits Two Deadlines This Summer
Anthropic's motion to dismiss the publishers' $3 billion suit is due August 3, and Sony v. Suno's fair-use fight just cleared a discovery conference in Massachusetts.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawTravis Scott Sued Over an Alleged Miami Yacht Meltdown
A yacht captain and two charter managers allege he assaulted them and threatened to kill the captain during a 2024 charter — claims his team calls a 'money grab.'
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawDiddy Sold the Freak-Off House. The Appeal Is a Different Fight.
The $55 million Star Island sale closes out one chapter of the case. His appeal of the Mann Act conviction is the one that actually matters now.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawStarting in August, Every AI-Made Song in Europe Has to Say So
The EU AI Act's disclosure mandate lands next month, and it's about to test how much of hip-hop's beat market is quietly AI-assisted.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawA Dallas Courtroom Is Deciding Whether Yella Beezy's Bars Can Convict Him
A multi-day pretrial hearing over four songs is shaping up as one of 2026's most consequential rap-lyrics-as-evidence fights.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawRap Lyrics on Trial: The Fight to Keep Bars Out of the Courtroom
For three decades, prosecutors have read rap verses to juries as confessions — here's how the legal battle over that practice actually works.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawNicki Minaj's Own Lawyers Are Suing Her — and Papered Her Front Gate to Prove It
A $230K unpaid-fee dispute over her 'I Lied' copyright case just went very, very public.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawFoolio's Convicted Killer Gets Five More Years — This Time for Attacking a Corrections Officer
Davion Murphy, already serving life for the Jacksonville rapper's 2024 murder, pleaded guilty to battery on a deputy at the Falkenberg Road Jail.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawHip-Hop's Legal Calendar Gets Heavy This Fall
Three separate murder trials tied to the culture land within weeks of each other, starting in August.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawWhy an $800K Sample Judgment Still Shapes How Rappers Clear Beats
Sony's win against Trefuego over an uncleared Toshifumi Hinata sample keeps setting the terms for who can afford to sample in 2026.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawR. Kelly Petitions Trump for Clemency, Citing Safety Fears in Prison
The disgraced singer is asking for his 30-year sentence to be commuted, claiming his life is at risk behind bars in North Carolina.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsLawDiddy, Snoop Dogg, and the Biggie Estate Sued Over 'Nasty Girl' and 'I Wanna Thank Ya'
A fresh copyright infringement suit lands squarely on two catalog tracks tied to Bad Boy's biggest names.
The Docket · 1mo ago
📷 FlickrLawU.S. Seizes More Pirate Sports Streaming Domains, But Iranian Fallbacks Remain
The U.S. continues to crack down on sports streaming sites, seizing well over a hundred additional domain names this weekend. While these enforcement actions sorted effect, several
The Docket (wire) · 2mo ago
📷 FlickrLaw$3.1 Billion and Counting: UMG, Concord and ABKCO's Anthropic Suit Widens the AI-Music Front
The amended complaint leans on the same torrenting theory that drove the Bartz settlement — and it's a preview of where music litigation goes after the Suno rulings.
The Docket · 2mo ago
📷 AI-generatedLawSony v. Suno Fair-Use Hearing Lands This Month — And a Munich Court Isn't Far Behind
Sony is the last major label still fighting Suno in court, and a Massachusetts summary-judgment hearing could set the first real U.S. benchmark on AI-training fair use.
The Docket · 2mo ago