Music NFT website HitPiece faces legal action for “flagrant IP infringement”

By now, there are so many Wordle knockoffs, you could make playing them a full time job. Admittedly, I’m not quite sure how you would make that pay. Livestream the collapse of your mental state, perhaps.

Baring her nude back for the camera, she displayed the words "F U WAR", which was scrawled across her back in black writing.Plus, in another photo, she wrote the same message just beneath her collar bone, shielding her breasts with her arm to preserve her modesty.Branding the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces "absolutely disgusting", she also shared photos of herself helping to give out donations to the needy, and implored her 417,000 followers to do the same.Though she is regularly referred to as "the most photographed woman in the world", having graced hundreds of magazine covers around the globe in her career as an international supermodel, her anti-war message has to be the most powerful and thought-provoking photo message she has ever delivered.The set of risqué pictures included Caprice standing beside a staircase, with her back to the camera and her two middle fingers raised defiantly in the air.She pixelated out the gesture, but her feelings were all too clear.Her tousled wet hair trailed down her back, but did not obscure the all important message written across her back - "F U War".The enraged former supermodel had previously taken to Twitter to lament: "Their [sic] is just no justification for the unprovoked attack on an independent state!"This is a reckless threat to world peace !!!"Flooding the post with crying emojis, she added: "My sad heart goes out to the people of Ukraine."Caprice, who used the hashtag #prayingforpeace, also reposted an informative photo of Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the country's first Jewish president, captioned: "His grandfather fought Nazis in WW2."Many of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust."Meanwhile, Caprice appeared in less glamorous poses - but with the

Dua Lipa has responded to an Oscar Isaac fan-fiction story about her being read out on Saturday Night Live last weekend (March 5).On the latest episode of the long-running American sketch show, actor Oscar Isaac could be seen reading out a fan-fiction story about the pop star during a skit on the show.After hearing the story read, Dua Lipa responded on Instagram.“Adds to list of things I never thought would happen in my life”, she wrote, followed by several laughing emojis.A post shared by DUA LIPA (@dualipa)In the sketch, one of the characters Isaac’s played was Michael – a school janitor with an unexpected hobby of writing stories.Michael interrupts a writing class and starts to share a story he’s been writing on, called ‘The Apogee Of Midnight.’The story is about a janitor who is alone a school at midnight before he’s interrupted by a woman who is looking for him.“My name is Dua Lipa,” the woman in the story says. “I’m a big pop star, and I’m looking for a janitor here named Mike.”You can see a video of the sketch here:Last week (March 6), it was revealed that Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Dua Lipa on a new single.Posting on Twitter, the rapper shared an image that featured photos of her and the singer on the icing of four cakes.

s sudden death last week at the age of 52.The spin-bowler was found dead in his villa in Thailand on Friday, with an autopsy this week confirming he died of natural causes. Following his death, his family has issued a lengthy statement with individual tributes from his three children, Brooke, Jackson, and Summer, as well as ex-wife Simone Callahan, his parents Keith and Brigette, and brother Jason.Warne’s eldest daughter Brooke, 24, insisted the news ‘doesn’t feel real’, but added she’ll ‘cherish’ the pair’s final memories together.She wrote in the statement issued on Monday: ‘Dad, this doesn’t feel real and doesn’t make sense that you are not here with us anymore. It doesn’t feel right, you were taken away too soon and life is so cruel.

A teenager lashed out and stabbed four people during a house party in a 'moment of madness'.

Brooklyn Beckham is continuing to pull out all the stops for his soon-to-be wife Nicola Peltz ahead of their impending wedding.MORE: Brooklyn Beckham shows ultimate declaration of love to fiancée Nicola Peltz ahead of weddingOver the weekend, the American actress revealed how happy she was when her fiancé surprised her up with a large bouquet of pale pink and white roses when he came to pick her up.WATCH: Brooklyn Beckham shares touching engagement story on Today Show"Picked me up with flowers, you're a dream @brooklynbeckham," gushed Nicola. The snap showed Brooklyn smiling broadly in the car whilst holding the roses.MORE: Brooklyn Beckham opens up about his Jewish wedding to NicolaSEE: Brooklyn Beckham's fiancée Nicola Peltz smoulders in intimate bed selfie after big announcementThe heartwarming post comes days after the eldest child of Victoria and David Beckham marked his 23rd birthday.

supports HTML5 videoKim Kardashian has shared a wild behind-the-scenes video of her incredible Paris fashion week look, meaning we can finally work out how she pulled it off. The Skims business mogul, 41, took to her Instagram stories to give fans a look into how the incredible fashion statement was created after she attended the Balenciaga fashion week show in Paris in a truly eye-catching ensemble, even by her standards! If we can sum it up: it resembled a high fashion mummy.

It’s a nerve racking for anyone the first time you meet your new in-laws, but when the family you’re being introduced to is the Royal family, the prospect is even more daunting. It was 2016 when Meghan first began started dating Prince Harry, after being introduced by a friend, Misha Nonoo.

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield broke down in tears as they watched a video of a Ukrainian girl singing ‘Let it Go’ in a bomb shelter. The This Morning co-hosts watched the viral video of a small girl singing the beloved Frozen song in her native language in the basement of a building in Ukraine.They listened to the sweet young girl’s voice as she stood amongst beds, medical supplies in a cramped space.

Zoë Kravitz has given an update on the “vulnerable” new solo music she’s making with Jack Antonoff.The actress and musician previously told AnOther magazine back in October that she’d been recording with Antonoff “for a couple of years, on and off”.Speaking in a new interview with Elle, Kravitz has now spoken further about working with the Bleachers musician at Electric Lady Studios in New York.“It feels vulnerable, and it’s a little scary, but making music makes me happy,” Kravitz said about the project. Elle notes that the forthcoming music “explores love and loss, among other themes she’s still discovering”.Kravitz told AnOther last year that Antonoff is “a fantastic producer – he’s so good at really tapping into who he’s working with and not making it about him”.“Some producers want to make it about … like, ‘I’m going to put my sound on you’.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs long expected, Universal Music Publishing has acquired 17-time Grammy Award winner Sting’s career catalog of music. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in recent months the artist was said to be seeking around $350 million.

EXCLUSIVE: Amid a streaming-spurred frenzy for music catalog rights, Multimedia Music has acquired film and TV scores from nine-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard.

Taylor Swift was spotted out in public for the first time in three months on Tuesday.The 32-year-old superstar was seen leaving producer Jack Antonoff's studio in New York City with her parents Scott and Andrea.The 11-time Grammy Award winner, who was last seen at an afterparty following her November appearance on Saturday Night Live, carried a keyboard and a folder under her arm. Rare sighting:Taylor Swift was spotted out in public for the first time in three months on TuesdayTaylor looked stylish in a long black blazer with charcoal gray jeans, black platform Oxford shoes and tan socks.

K.J. Yossman Iggy Pop and Paris-based contemporary music troupe Ensemble intercontemporain have been named the 2022 recipients of the Polar Music Prize.The Polar Music Prize, which was founded in 1989 by Swedish musician Stig ”Stikkan” Anderson, is one of the world’s most prestigious music awards.

Sitting in a soft pink cardigan, surrounded by enormous, pink iced cakes with pink butterflies on the kitchen wall behind her, Dolly Paron cuts an imposing figure as she chats on to HollywoodLife’s musical editor, Jason Browe.This feisty, well renown and celebrated song writer weighed into the reported Damon Albam feud with Taylor Swift. “I don’t care what people think about my songs. Taylor Swift is a great writer, with or without anybody else.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Band’s Robbie Robertson has joined the growing catalog-sale party and sold his music publishing, recorded interests and name, image & likeness rights to Iconoclast, a new firm founded by Olivier Chastan, the former CEO of Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group. The news was first reported by Music Business Worldwide.The acquisition covers Robertson’s entire six-decade career, from his early 1960s compositions with early outfits like the Hawks to his classic songs with the Band to his solo and film soundtrack material.Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources tell Variety the deal was for around $25 million, for a catalog including such iconic songs as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Shape I’m In,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and more.

HitPiece, a website accused of offering NFTs of songs, came under scrutiny on Tuesday after musicians accused it of minting the NFTs without their permission. NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, are digital certificates of ownership that are stored in a database called the blockchain.

It’s not clear what the people received when they purchased an NFT — whether just an image of an album cover, or whether there was an audio file attached. Whatever it was, it wasn’t authorized by the artists, some of the artists are alleging.

website currently shows hundreds of what appear to be active auctions for NFTs tied to artists’ albums and songs, from prominent artists such as the Beatles, Taylor Swift and Bob Dylan to smaller independent acts.Several musicians who said they did not consent to their music purportedly being auctioned off as NFTs on the site slammed HitPiece on social media on the night of February 1. “Hey you stupid fucks,” tweeted Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz and Sad13.

Hargus “Pig” Robbins was a country music session pianist who played on hits including Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” and on Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” album.Blind since childhood, Robbins learned to play piano while attending the Nashville School for the blind. He began playing for Nashville’s greatest musicians in the 1950s, his first big hit coming with George Jones’ (1931–2013) “White Lightning” in 1959.

Chris Willman Music WriterHargus “Pig” Robbins, a Country Music Hall of Fame member who played piano on thousands of Nashville sessions and was renowned to Bob Dylan fans for his work on “Blonde on Blonde,” has died at age 84.