Taylor Swift will face a jury trial on allegations that she plagiarized lyrics from another song for her 2014 smash Shake It Off. Swift’s plea for the lawsuit to be dismissed on the grounds that a jury may decide that the song duplicated Playas Gon’ Play, a song by girl group 3LW published in 2001, […]

Tina Turner has sold the rights to her six-decade-long song collection to BMG Music Publishing, which includes singles like What’s Love Got to Do With It and Private Dancer. In the largest agreement negotiated with a single artist in BMG’s history, the “queen of rock’n’roll” surrendered her artist and writer shares in her records, as […]