{"id":5483,"date":"2025-04-26T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/crumbls-copyright-conundrum-with-taylor-swift-beyonce-other-artists\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:40:31","slug":"crumbls-copyright-conundrum-with-taylor-swift-beyonce-other-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/crumbls-copyright-conundrum-with-taylor-swift-beyonce-other-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbl&#8217;s Copyright Conundrum With Taylor Swift, Beyonc\u00e9, Other Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Crumbl is taking the heat from Warner Music Group and its subsidiaries for claims of unauthorized use of the recording company&#8217;s catalog, which includes artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Tom Petty, and more. The catch? Social media influencers independently created the content advertising Crumbl&#8217;s baked goods with the tunes\u2014and Crumbl simply reposted it on its social media accounts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><b>Takeaway: <\/b>Recording companies have begun cracking down on unauthorized use of artists&#8217; music in recent years. Targets of these music copyright cases have ranged, and the suits have become more common since music became more widely available online. Infringement suit targets have included restaurants like Chili&#8217;s, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/therecorder\/2024\/07\/11\/beastie-boys-rimon-law-allege-copyright-infringement-by-chilis-in-social-media-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Beastie Boys sued<\/a> in July, alleging it infringed on the band&#8217;s 1994 song &#8220;Sabotage.&#8221; President Donald Trump also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2024\/10\/10\/court-enjoins-use-of-song-at-campaign-events-in-hayes-v-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">faced litigation<\/a> for using unauthorized music during his presidential campaign rallies in September. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crumbl is taking the heat from Warner Music Group and its subsidiaries for claims of unauthorized use of the recording company&#8217;s catalog, which includes artists like Taylor Swift, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[584,1304,5656,429,5655,3029,3028],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-artists","tag-beyonce","tag-conundrum","tag-copyright","tag-crumbls","tag-swift","tag-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}