{"id":2420,"date":"2024-08-27T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/shaboozeys-bar-fight-beyonce-v-donald-trump-more-music-law-news\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T21:14:07","slug":"shaboozeys-bar-fight-beyonce-v-donald-trump-more-music-law-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/shaboozeys-bar-fight-beyonce-v-donald-trump-more-music-law-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaboozey’s ‘Bar’ Fight, Beyonc\u00e9 v. Donald Trump & More Music Law News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tThis is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between. This week: Shaboozey gets into a thorny legal battle with his former label; Beyonc\u00e9 and the Foo Fighters move to stop Donald Trump from using their songs; another lawsuit erupts over the control of the Ramones; and much more.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tTHE BIG STORY: Shaboozey\u2019s Looming \u201cBar\u201d Fight<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tAmid the massive success of Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d an acrimonious legal battle is brewing in Los Angeles Superior Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday (Aug. 21), the breakout country star (born Collins Obinna Chibueze) filed a lawsuit<\/a> against music publisher Warner Chappell and his former record label, Kreshendo Entertainment, accusing them of breach of contract. Two days later, Kreshendo sued him right back<\/a>, accusing him of \u201ca strategy of fraud and misrepresentation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dispute? The extent to which Shaboozey is still bound by a deal he signed with Kreshendo back in 2016, when he was a relatively unknown artist. Both sides agree that the deal was terminated in 2019, but they are at odds over Shaboozey\u2019s continuing obligations to his old label. And Warner has gotten roped in because it administers his publishing rights, which play a key role in the dispute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The litigation is getting underway just as \u201cA Bar Song\u201d has emerged as one of the biggest hits of 2024. A genre-blending hit that interpolates J-KWON\u2018s 2004 rap hit \u201cTipsy\u201d into a bouncy pop country track, the track has spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking the longest chart-topping stint of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In its lawsuit, Kreshendo says it was that sudden success that sparked the legal battle: \u201cShaboozey had no issue with any of these terms for years. It was only after he recently released the \u2018Bar Song,\u2019 which has become a huge hit, that he has taken sudden issue with the terms he expressly agreed to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll keep you posted as the dispute moves ahead in court\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOther top stories this week\u2026<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tFAMILY FUED\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A California appeals court issued a final ruling<\/a> allowing the Michael Jackson estate to proceed with a $600 million sale of the singer\u2019s catalog to Sony Music, rejecting objections from his mother Katherine Jackson that aimed to block the deal. She\u2019d argued that the deal \u201cviolated Michael\u2019s wishes,\u201d but the court ruled that the superstar\u2019s will gives his executors (John Branca<\/strong> and John McClain<\/strong>) \u201cbroad powers\u201d to ink such transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HOLD UP <\/strong>\u2013 Beyonc\u00e9\u2018s record label and music publisher sent a cease-and-desist<\/a> to Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2018s presidential campaign over its use of the megastar\u2019s song \u201cFreedom\u201d in a social media video, prompting the campaign to quickly pull down the offending post. The Bey track serves as the official theme song for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris<\/strong> \u2014 likely the reason why the Trump campaign used it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ANTI-HERO?<\/strong> \u2013 Elsewhere in Trump world, the Foo Fighters publicly claimed that they had not authorized<\/a> the former president to play their 1997 anthem \u201cMy Hero\u201d at a rally with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <\/strong>and would seek to prevent him from doing so in the future. The campaign later claimed that it had, in fact, obtained proper licenses<\/a> to perform the song. Either way, the band said that any royalties received as a result of this usage would be donated to the Harris\/Walz campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DAME\u2019S UNPAID TAXES <\/strong>\u2013 Just a week before a court-ordered auction of Damon Dash<\/strong>\u2019s one-third stake in Jay-Z\u2019s Roc-A-Fella Records, there was a stunning new wrinkle<\/a>: He owes more than $8.7 million in unpaid taxes \u2014 and New York state says the proceeds from the Roc-A-Fella sale must be used to pay them. The new claim complicated an already complex situation, in which Dash\u2019s stake in the storied record label is being sold off by U.S. Marshals to pay off an $823,000 civil judgment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HEY, HO, LET\u2019S SUE <\/strong>\u2013 Opening up a new front in the never-ending legal war over the Ramones, Joey Ramone\u2019s brother (Mitchel Hyman, better known as Mickey Leigh) sued Johnny\u2019s widow<\/a> (Linda Cummings-Ramone), accusing her of infringing the band\u2019s trademarks by carrying out an \u201cunrelenting quest\u201d to associate herself with the Ramones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DIDDY CASE UPDATE <\/strong>\u2013 Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs asked a federal judge to dismiss a case<\/a> filed in February by Rodney \u201cLil Rod\u201d Jones, arguing that the \u201csalacious\u201d lawsuit was filled with \u201cblatant falsehoods\u201d designed to pressure him into paying a lucrative settlement: \u201cRunning to nearly 100 pages, it includes countless tall tales, shameless celebrity namedrops, and irrelevant images.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

SNEAKER SETTLEMENT <\/strong>\u2013 The sneaker company Vans and a Brooklyn art collective called MSCHF reached a settlement<\/a> to end a long-running trademark lawsuit over Tyga\u2018s \u201cWavy Baby\u201d sneakers \u2014 a parody of the company\u2019s classic Old Skool brand of shoes. The artists said Tyga\u2019s pricy sneakers were akin to an art project, and thus protected by the First Amendment. But Vans called it \u201cblatant\u201d infringement of the company\u2019s IP, and federal courts repeatedly agreed with that assessment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OUTKAST TRADEMARK CASE <\/strong>\u2013 The legendary rappers sued an EDM duo<\/a> called ATLiens, the same name as one of OutKast\u2019s best-known songs. Big Boi and Andr\u00e9 3000 claimed that the name (a combo of \u201caliens\u201d and their hometown of Atlanta) is a novel linguistic term that had been \u201cinvented by OutKast\u201d \u2014 and that the rival group is confusing music fans by using it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SHKRELI SEIZURE <\/strong>\u2013 A federal judge ordered convicted pharma executive Martin Shkreli <\/strong>to hand over his copies<\/a> of Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em>, rejecting his claims that he had a right to retain duplicates of the one-of-a-kind album even after he forfeited it to federal prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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