{"id":9804,"date":"2026-02-11T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ramones-settlement-bad-bunny-case-mariah-carey-more-music-law-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:45:41","slug":"ramones-settlement-bad-bunny-case-mariah-carey-more-music-law-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ramones-settlement-bad-bunny-case-mariah-carey-more-music-law-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramones Settlement, Bad Bunny Case, Mariah Carey & More Music Law News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tTHE BIG STORY<\/strong>: The long legal war over The Ramones, pitting Johnny Ramone\u2019s widow against Joey Ramone\u2019s brother, appears to finally be over.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe leaders of the pioneering punk band weren\u2019t actually brothers \u2013 and they also didn\u2019t like each other very much. After they died in the 2000s, that enmity seemed to pass to Johnny\u2019s widow, Linda Cummings-Ramone, and Joey\u2019s brother, Mickey Leigh. For years, the two have battled in court \u2014 over her use of the surname, over a Netflix biopic set to star Pete Davidson, and even over a ceremonial first pitch at a Mets game.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut last week, new court filings disclosed that they had reached a settlement to resolve the dispute once and for all. Though the pair previously split the band\u2019s intellectual property evenly, the filing said Linda had bought out Mickey\u2019s share and now has \u201ctotal control\u201d over the band\u2019s holding company.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow that the litigation is over, is it finally time for a Ramones movie? We\u2019ve got nothin\u2019 to do, nowhere to go-oh\u2026<\/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-As Bad Bunny basks in Super Bowl and Grammy glory, he and dozens of other music stars still face an \u201cunprecedented\u201d copyright lawsuit \u2013 one that claims a key element of nearly every reggaeton track was essentially stolen from a single 1989 song.<\/p>\n

\n\t-If you come at the Queen of Christmas, you best not miss: Mariah Carey says a guy who filed an \u201cabsurd\u201d copyright case over \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d must repay $1 million in legal bills.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Martin Shkreli decided to sue Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s RZA over the group\u2019s one-of-a-kind album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em>, pulling the rapper into a long-running legal battle over the album.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Former Maverick City Music member Chandler Moore has received approval from a judge to release solo music amid a bitter legal feud with the Grammy-winning worship collective.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson demanded that music from their 2017 film Phantom Thread<\/em> be removed from the Melania<\/em> documentary.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Powerhouse music attorney Dina LaPolt is facing a countersuit from her former law partner Mariah Comer over allegations of \u201cegregious racial discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t-Two collaborators dropped their lawsuit against Tyla over the royalty splits from her 2023 breakout smash \u201cWater,\u201d ending the case without any kind of settlement payment.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Pandora asked a judge to end the Mechanical Licensing Collective\u2019s lawsuit over streaming royalties, accusing the group of \u201cabusing\u201d its position with an unconstitutional case.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Chris Brown was sued by a man named Steve Chokpelle who claims he co-wrote two successful songs for the R&B star but hasn\u2019t seen a penny in royalties.<\/p>\n

\n\t-A judge held filmmaker Bob Carruthers liable for infringing 80 songs owned by ABKCO and UMG in documentaries about The Rolling Stones, U2, Elton John, Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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