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1: Netflix Slams Unofficial ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Creators in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
First off today, Larisha Paul at Rolling Stone reports that Netflix has filed a lawsuit against a duo of musicians alleging that they violated an agreement and staged live performances of their album the Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.
The lawsuit targets musicians Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, known as Barlow and Bear. The duo created the album with permission from Netflix and even won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. However, the duo recently staged live performances of the album, something that Netflix says is outside the agreement they had.
According to Netflix, their agreement only extended to the audio album and that additional permission was required for anything beyond that. In addition to the copyright issues, which includes verbatim dialog included in the songs, Netflix alleges that the duo used Bridgerton trademarks improperly in advertising the show.
2: Peloton Sued for ‘Outrageous’ Use Of Cypress Hill Songs
Next up today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that Peloton is facing a new copyright infringement lawsuit, this one filed by one of the original members of Cypress Hill.
The lawsuit was filed by a company owned by DJ Lawrence Muggerud, who claimed that Peloton used several Cypress Hill songs without first obtaining the needed rights. Peloton was notably sued in March 2019 by a group of music publishers. They claimed that the workout company was using popular songs in their workout classes without obtaining sync licensed.
That lawsuit was settled in February 2020 but, according to Muggerud, Peloton has still not properly secured licenses for Cypress Hill songs, including ones he helped write and performed on. Muggerud, for his part, owns a 50 percent stake in the publishing rights to the songs in question, though it is unclear who owns the rest of the rights and if Peloton struck deals with them.
3: VeePN Puts in Place Some Anti-Piracy Blocks to Settle Copyright Litigation
Finally today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the virtual private network (VPN) provider VeePN has agreed to institute pirate blocks in order to settle a lawsuit that was filed by a group of independent film producers.
The film producers sued VeePN alleging that the service not only aided pirates in circumventing copyright protections, but that it clearly advertised its tools for doing so. This prompted the judge in the case to order both PayPal and Alipay to freeze the company’s assets.
This, it would seem, brought VeePN to the negotiating table as it has a greed to both block access to a series of pirate websites but also to the BitTorrent protocol through its service. With that deal in place, both the lawsuit and the injunction can be dismissed.
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