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Mar 5, 2016
WYSH Radio reports the city of Rocky Top, Tennessee, has settled with House of Bryant Music, which owns the copyright to the song "Rocky Top," agreeing not to use the city's new moniker for commercial gain. The community, formerly known as Lake City, had renamed itself "Rocky Top" in an effort to generate tourism
Jun 21, 2016
Ads begin running in political media for three days with 180 recording artists seeking digital copyright reform. The signees include Taylor Swift, Vince Gill, The Zac Brown Band, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Lauren Alaina and The Band Perry
Aug 25, 2016
A Nashville judge rules in favor of Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, who were sued for $10 million for copyright infringement by a songwriter who claimed they stole the ideas to her song "Remind Me"
Aug 30, 2016
Jay DeMarcus joins more than 200 songwriters who file a legal brief in Los Angeles asking the court to overturn a copyright infringement verdict involving the pop song "Blurred Lines." Other signees include writers Brett James, busbee, Hugh Prestwood, Darrell Brown, Shane McAnally, Shane Minor, Jon Nite and Wendell Mobley
Oct 27, 2016
Timothy Arnett sues Alan Jackson in North Carolina, charging that Jackson's "Remember When" is an infringement of his own song, "Remember Me." The suit will be thrown out of court 10 months later
Mar 15, 2017
Taylor Swift applies to trademark the phrase "Swifties"
Jul 2, 2017
Dion asks for more than $1 million in damages as he files suit against Zenimax Media in California for using "The Wanderer" without his permission in a commercial advertising the video game "Fallout 4." The song was remade, legally, in the 1980s as a country single by Eddie Rabbitt
Aug 14, 2017
A North Carolina judge dismisses a copyright lawsuit brought against Alan Jackson by songwriter Timothy Arnett, who maintained that Jackson's hit "Remember When" ripped off his own "Remember Me"
Sep 5, 2017
Stormfront Radio receives a letter from American Recordings demanding that the white-supremacist organization stop using Johnny Cash's version of "I Won't Back Down" to further its agenda
Sep 15, 2017
Canadian songwriters Georgia Lyons-Savage and Ronald McNeill file suit in Nashville against Carrie Underwood and composers Chris DeStefano and Brett James, alleging the hit "Something In The Water" is a ripoff of their own song with the same title
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