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  1. Article · Oct 2, 2026 · Rachel Scharf

    The Game’s Label Sues UMG for Under-Promoting His 2022 Album: ‘Diminished Commercial Performance’ (opens the original)

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    Universal Music Group (UMG) is accused in a new lawsuit of spending just a third of the marketing budget promised for The Game’s 2022 album Drillmatic – Heart vs. Mind. The legal complaint was filed on Wednesday (Sept. 30) by 100 Entertainment, the independent record label run by The Game (Jayceon Terrell Taylor). 100 Entertainment had an exclusive distribution deal with UMG’s Virgin Music Group for Drillmatic, which debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 in August 2022 and spent two weeks on th

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Rachel Scharf

    Chris Brown’s Ex-Housekeeper Accepts $9.5M Verdict in Dog Attack Case, Down From $13M (opens the original)

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    The former housekeeper mauled by a 200-pound dog at Chris Brown’s house has agreed to cut several million dollars off her $13 million trial verdict against the R&B star. On Tuesday (Sept. 29), Los Angeles County Judge Huey P. Cotton gave victim Maria Avila the choice to either retry her claims against Brown or walk away with a reduced $9.5 million damages award. The next day (Sept. 30), Avila chose option two. “Plaintiff Maria Avila hereby unequivocally accepts the remittitur and consents to the

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Rachel Scharf

    Lil Durk’s 2nd Racketeering Trial Set for 2027 After Murder-for-Hire Acquittal (opens the original)

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    Lil Durk is still facing a racketeering charge after being acquitted of ordering Quando Rondo’s murder, but a follow-up trial isn’t on the calendar until next summer. A Wednesday (Sept. 30) court order, obtained by Billboard, delayed Durk’s second trial from a placeholder date of Oct. 5, 2026, until Aug. 30, 2027. In the meantime, the rap star’s lawyers are likely preparing to argue that last month’s bombshell verdict undermines the second case. The “All My Life” hitmaker (Durk Banks) was found

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Rachel Scharf

    Pandora’s MLC Royalties Lawsuit Heads to Trial as Judge Declines to Sift Through ‘Corpulent’ Case File (opens the original)

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    A judge says it’ll take too long to review more than 7,000 pages of documents in litigation between Pandora and the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), so he’s having a jury decide the fight over streaming royalties. The MLC, a group created by the Music Modernization Act to apportion mechanical royalties from streaming services, sued Pandora in 2024 for allegedly misclassifying its free tier to avoid paying the higher rates owed by “interactive” platforms like Spotify. The SiriusXM unit deni

  5. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Rachel Scharf

    Terrorism Plotter at Taylor Swift Concert Can’t Sue Disney for ‘End of an Era’ Series, Judge Rules: Report (opens the original)

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    A judge has ruled that one of the men convicted of planning a foiled terrorist attack at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour does not have viable legal claims over a depiction of his home in Disney’s docuseries about the record-breaking concert run. A 21-year-old Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. was sentenced in May to 15 years in prison for helping orchestrate a thwarted plot to violently attack Swift’s 2024 Eras Tour stop in Vienna. The Disney+ series The End of an Era, released last December, chr

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