Gwen Stefani has worked a gnarly legal entanglement out of her hair. “Hollaback Girl” singer Stefani and Pharrell Williams have been cleared in a copyright infringement claim by a man who said he had ...

Yes members Steve Howe and Jon Davison were named in a lawsuit alleging they had “conspired” to steal a song from a longtime collaborator. The papers – filed in the Central District of California and ...

But don’t expect that argument to hold up when you wind up in copyright court. Incidentally, copyright law varies, so investigate. As a rule, compositions dated 1922 or later and all sound recordings ...

Mariah Carey won big Wednesday after she was accused of copying lyrics for her hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You." Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani granted Carey's motion for summary judgment before ...

The past year in hip-hop has been largely defined by a plethora of feuds between rappers, with one in particular. While rap disputes can be started by any number of inciting events, sometimes they ...

Acknowledging that online piracy is forcing dramatic changes in the music industry, the world’s two largest record companies are poised to make it easy and cheap for fans to buy--rather than ...

I once heard Waylon Jennings -- former guitar player for The Crickets -- describe someone (not, to my knowledge, a musician), as "so dumb, he couldn't even steal a good song." I hope I'm not that dumb ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - This week's summer song was a one hit wonder for an alternative/indie rock band. The group Len hailed from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, formed in 1991 by Marc Costanzo and his ...

When John Legend wrote Get Lifted, we wonder if he was referring to this guy. The R&B smoothie is on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed by a fellow artist who alleges Legend swiped his work and used ...

Gwen Stefani has worked a gnarly legal entanglement out of her hair. “Hollaback Girl” singer Stefani and Pharrell Williams have been cleared in a copyright infringement claim by a man who said he had ...