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“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” in 2023. Though Disney still owns the rights to animated versions of “Winnie the Pooh,” the original story in AA Milne’s book on the honey-loving teddy bear entered the public domain on Jan.

unlawfully copying Bruno Mars’ song “When I Was Your Man” for her number-one hit “Flowers.”On Tuesday, US District Judge Dean Pregerson rejected Cyrus’ argument that Tempo Music Investments, which said it owns a share of the copyright in Mars’ song, could not bring the lawsuit.Tempo is unaffiliated with Mars, who is not involved in the lawsuit.Spokespeople and attorneys for Cyrus’ label Sony Music did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the decision on Wednesday.Tempo attorney Alex Weingarten of Willkie Farr & Gallagher said on Wednesday that the company is “thrilled but not the least surprised” by the decision and “extremely confident in prevailing” in the case.Cyrus released “Flowers” on her 2023 album “Endless Summer Vacation.” “Flowers” has over 1 billion streams on Spotify and won the Song of the Year Grammy award in 2024.Tempo sued Cyrus and Sony Music in September, arguing that “Flowers” duplicates “numerous melodic, harmonic and lyrical elements” of Mars’ “When I Was Your Man,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2013.Tempo said in the complaint that it bought its share of “When I Was Your Man” from the song’s co-writer Philip Lawrence in 2020.Cyrus and her song’s co-writers asked the court in November to dismiss the claims against them, arguing that Tempo lacked standing to sue under US copyright law because it did not have “exclusive rights” to the song.Pregerson ruled against Cyrus on Tuesday.“Because Lawrence as a co-owner could sue for infringement, Tempo as co‐owner, in lieu of Lawrence, can sue for infringement without joining the other co‐owners,” Pregerson said.

The lawsuit, filed Friday by Buck Woodall in California federal court, claims the Disney films exhibit “breathtaking” similarities to his script, “Bucky the Wave Warrior” or “Bucky,” an animated feature he says was inspired by his “unique exposure” to Polynesian culture.Woodall is seeking “at least $10 billion” in damages and 2.5% of the gross revenue from “Moana 2” and related merchandise, a sum he estimated to be “at least $5 billion.”Both “Moana” and “Moana 2” were runaway hits for Disney, with the sequel setting the record for the biggest Thanksgiving weekend debut in box office history (it raked in $221 million in its five-day domestic open).In addition to Disney, production company Mandeville Films and former Mandeville exec Jenny Marchick (currently head of feature development for DreamWorks Animation) are named as defendants, per People.The timing of the legal action is less than ideal for Disney. The studio is reportedly hoping “Moana 2” will garner a Best Animated Feature Oscar nod when the Academy announces nominations, which was extended because of the devastating LA fires.According to Woodall’s lawsuit, the alleged similarities between the “Moana” movies and his script include a teenage protagonist on “a dangerous voyage across Polynesian waters” to save an “endangered” island, “ancient spirits manifested as animals which guide and guard the living,” a symbolic necklace central to the story and a demigod with a giant hook and tattoos, among others.Woodall claimed that he began sharing his ideas for “Bucky” with Marchick when she was at Mandeville Films in 2003.

share a few chords, pitches, an abstract ‘overall melodic design,’ and words, none of which is protected by copyright. And Plaintiff’s transcriptions, even assuming they are correct, show striking differences in melody, chords, other musical elements, and words,” the document states.The Post has reached out to lawyers for Cyrus and Tempo.Tempo filed their suit against Cyrus on Sept.

an annual Jan. 1 column for “Public Domain Day.” “It wasn’t just Disney that was pushing for term extension. It was a whole group of copyright holders whose works were set to go into the public domain soon, who benefited greatly from the 20 years of extra protection,” she said.

wrote Monday alongside several photos of his and Beyonce’s visuals. In one of the photos, the “Break My Soul” singer, 42, can be seen wearing a chrome — which later became the tour’s unofficial dress code — headpiece with what looks to be wires sticking out from the side.It is currently unclear if Sorayama is pursuing any legal action against the “Halo” songstress.

Cabbage Patch Kid had such a bloodless introduction to their loving homes.In a new documentary out Friday, “Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids,” director Andrew Jenks peels back the layers of cabbage leaves to tell the zany story how these baby sized cuddly dolls became a pop-culture juggernaut — and ushered in an era of Black Friday retail violence.Forty years ago, adults flooded malls and toy stores, physically brawling to get their hands on this “It” toy. In November 1983, the stories — and the injuries — racked up quickly.

The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World,” filed a lawsuit in New York on Monday claiming that tech giant Apple and The Tetris Company, producers of the new Taron Egerton film “Tetris,” adapted his book without asking permission. According to documents obtained by The Post, Ackerman, 49, has accused Apple and The Tetris Company of copyright infringement, unfair competition, and illegally interfering with his business relations.“Tetris” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on March 15.

Ed Sheeran performed a snippet of “Thinking Out Loud” in front of a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, singing and strumming a few notes on an acoustic guitar during his Marvin Gaye copyright infringement trial.While testifying on the witness stand, the “Shape of You” singer took a tan Lowden wooden acoustic guitar and played the basic four-chord progression highlighting the 2014 hit single, giving the courtroom an intimate teaser of his gigs.Sheeran’s appearance came after his attorney Ilene Farkas called him to the stand to refute comments made by the plaintiffs’ musicologist Alexander Stewart, who argued that the first 24 seconds of “Thinking Out Loud” were similar to the beginning of Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On.”However, Sheeran said that Stewart’s analysis was wrong, and performed the version he said he plays at every concert before he then played Stewart’s version.“It works very well with him, but it’s not the truth,” Sheeran said.The 32-year-old British singer-songwriter explained the origins of “Thinking Out Loud” and how the song was created after the death of his grandfather and watching his grandmother’s health decline.The song, which was written with longtime collaborator Amy Wadge, came to life after Sheeran hopped out of the shower of his home and heard Wadge strumming the chords.Kathryn Townsend Griffin — the daughter of the late Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the 1973 R&B classic with Gaye — wasn’t present Thursday. She had collapsed in court Wednesday and left the Moynihan Courthouse on a stretcher.Her attorney Ben Crump said that she was feeling better and is expected to return to court next week.Judge Louis L.

Bloomberg reported, adding that reps for the band have reached out to potential buyers. The report said the process began in early May but it’s too early to know what the outcome of the talks will be.

Monday’s announcement that Dylan had sold the rights to his six-decade trove of tunes to Universal Music in a deal that is believed to be the biggest ever of its kind: Sources told Bloomberg it was more than $200 million, while the New York Times reported that it could be more than $300 million.This news came just a few days after Nicks sold 80 percent of her stake in her publishing rights — for both her Fleetwood Mac and solo work — to music publisher Primary Wave for $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.While each deal is different, selling your copyrights typically allows the purchaser to use your songs for any marketing purpose (such as a TV commercial) and, in some cases, entitles them to your songwriting royalties.

told Bloomberg the songs are worth more than $200 million, with others telling the New York Times that it could be more than $300 million.That would make it likely the biggest acquisition ever of the music publishing rights of a single act, the paper said.Dylan — who had previously controlled most of his own songwriting copyrights — sold more than 600 copyrights spanning 60 years, Universal said.That includes classics that made him an icon from his time in New York in the early 1960s — such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’” — to the 79-year-old songwriter’s latest album this year, “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”“It is no exaggeration to say that his vast body of work has captured the love and admiration of billions of