{"id":10410,"date":"2026-04-22T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/d4vd-murder-charge-bad-bunny-lawsuit-bts-leak-case-legal-news-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:02:46","slug":"d4vd-murder-charge-bad-bunny-lawsuit-bts-leak-case-legal-news-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/d4vd-murder-charge-bad-bunny-lawsuit-bts-leak-case-legal-news-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"D4vd Murder Charge, Bad Bunny Lawsuit, BTS Leak Case: Legal News Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tTHE BIG STORY: <\/strong>You probably don\u2019t need me to tell you: Live Nation and Ticketmaster lost their antitrust trial. After 15 years of gripes, three years of litigation, six weeks of trial and four days of deliberation, a jury said the industry behemoth had illegally monopolized key elements of the live music business.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt trial, dozens of states argued that Live Nation had monopolized the market for primary concert ticketing and the market for large amphitheaters, and had unlawfully required artists to use its promotion services in order to play those amphitheaters. In their blockbuster verdict on Wednesday (April 15), the jury agreed on all points in a total defeat for Live Nation.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFollowing the verdict, New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/strong> called it a \u201clandmark victory\u201d for fans: \u201cA jury found what we have long known to be true: Live Nation and Ticketmaster are breaking the law and costing consumers millions of dollars in the process.\u201d Live Nation said it would immediately seek to overturn the outcome: \u201cThe jury\u2019s verdict is not the last word on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat you do probably need me to tell you is what comes next. What will the judge do? Is he going to break up the company? And what about that settlement the Trump administration struck with Live Nation last month? \u201cNobody\u2019s ever seen something quite like this,\u201d one expert told Billboard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor more, go read our full breakdown of the next steps in the Live Nation lawsuit. And stay tuned as the case moves ahead \u2014 Billboard<\/em> will keep you updated at every step.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019re reading The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from <\/em>Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday, subscribe here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tOther top stories this week\u2026\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t-The singer D4vd (David Anthony Burke) was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, capping off months of speculation and uncertainty after her body was found in his car. Here\u2019s why prosecutors say he did it.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Record labels are quietly trying to get AI training rights into record deals, either through explicit new clauses or novel applications of old provisions. And some artist advocates are suspicious about what that means for the much-touted promise of \u201copt-in\u201d rights.<\/p>\n

\n\t-BTS\u2019 record label took the first step to sue an anonymous X user who allegedly leaked songs, lyrics and artwork from ARIRANG <\/em>before its release, seeking a subpoena to discover the poster\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

\n\t-For as long as It Ends With Us<\/em> co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have been battling in court, Taylor Swift\u2019s name has been linked to the case. With a trial looming, Billboard<\/em> broke down how much Taylor will actually come into play in the courtroom showdown.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Spotify and the three major label groups were awarded a nine-figure copyright judgment against the pirate library Anna\u2019s Archive. But will they actually be able to collect it?<\/p>\n

\n\t-Prince\u2019s tragic death \u2014 ten years ago this week \u2014 set off waves of grief at the passing of a music icon. It also set in motion complex legal battles that took years to resolve and have never fully ended.<\/p>\n

\n\t-A record label that unsuccessfully sued Bad Bunny over a sample on Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em> fired back against his demand to be repaid nearly $500,000 in legal bills, calling some of the star\u2019s arguments \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t-Powerhouse music lawyer Lisa Alter<\/strong> sat down with Billboard<\/em> to talk about catalog deals for Primary Wave, her women-led law firm, and the boom in music finance: \u201cThe investment community finally started appreciating that music holds value.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t-Anthropic asked a judge to end UMG\u2019s lawsuit over the use of song lyrics to train Claude, arguing that it had clearly made a \u201ctransformative\u201d fair use of the lyrics to create something entirely new.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Ye (formerly Kanye West) was hit with a lawsuit over a well-publicized 2024 incident at Los Angeles\u2019 famed Chateau Marmont, which he later blamed on an alleged sexual assault of wife Bianca Censori.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t-The major music companies hired Paul Clement<\/strong> \u2014 arguably the country\u2019s top U.S. Supreme Court lawyer \u2014 for a looming battle at the high court over whether copyright termination rules apply globally.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Prosecutors launched an appeal seeking to reinstate the conviction of a man accused of killing Run-DMC\u2019s Jam Master Jay: \u201cThese convictions were supported by the testimony of 38 witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2013Tory Lanez (currently serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion) sued the California prison system after a fellow inmate stabbed him 16 times in an attack last year.<\/p>\n

\n\t-UMG sued Quince for allegedly using copyrighted songs like Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u201cEspresso\u201d in TikTok posts \u2014 the latest in an industry-wide crackdown on music used by commercial brands on social media.<\/p>\n

\n\t-A judge refused to grant Megan Thee Stallion a cyberstalking injunction against celebrity gossip blogger Milagro Gramz, ruling that such a gag order would violate the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

\n\t-In other Live Nation news, the company agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle claims that Ticketmaster charged \u201cdeceptive fees\u201d to Washington D.C. residents and misled them about ticket prices.<\/p>\n


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