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    • Nov 11, 2011
    Sony/ATV Music reaches agreement to buy EMI Music Publishing. The combined firms represent copyrights by Alan Jackson, Willie Nelson, Taylor Swift, Roger Miller and Ronnie Dunn
    Jan 6, 2012
    Alt-country act Jason Isbell accuses Dierks Bentley in a Twitter rant of stealing part of the melody of "Home" from his 2007 song "In A Razor Town." Isbell refers to Bentley as a "douchebag." Bentley maintains he's not familiar with Isbell's music
    Mar 22, 2012
    A federal appeals court rules Sony/ATV, and not widow Mary Miller, owns the copyrights to Roger Miller's songs from 1964, including "Chug-A-Lug," "King Of The Road" and "Dang Me." The decision overturns a lower court's ruling
    Mar 13, 2012
    Eric Church files suit in Nashville against several vendors selling unauthorized merchandise with his likeness outside concert venues
    Apr 13, 2012
    The estate of photographer James Marshall files suit against Sony in San Francisco, charging the corporation has sold an iconic image of Johnny Cash flipping the bird at a San Quentin concert in poster form without permission
    Aug 10, 2012
    Britton Currie files a copyright suit in Nashville against songwriters Justin Moore, Jamie Paulin and Jeremy Stover, alleging the 2009 single "Backwoods" infringes on his 2003 song "In The Backwoods"
    Nov 28, 2012
    "You're Gonna Miss This" songwriter Lee Thomas Miller joins fellow writers Kara DioGuardi, Linda Perry and Desmond Child to testify to a congressional committee in Washington, D.C., on the Internet Fairness Radio Act
    Nov 30, 2012
    Leather worker Kyle Landas files suit in Atlanta against his former employer, Zac Brown, charging that Brown used a guitar strap Landas created for the cover of the album "You Get What You Give" without permission
    May 1, 2013
    Lizza Connor files suit in Nashville against songwriters Brad Paisley, Kelley Lovelace and Chris DuBois, claiming the 2011 hit "Remind Me" violates her 2008 copyright
    Dec 23, 2013
    Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, producer Frank Rogers and songwriters Kelley Lovelace and Chris DuBois file a response in a Nashville court, denying charges from a copyright suit that they stole "Remind Me." They ask for plaintiff Lizza Connor to pay their legal fees



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