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You were worried. It's OK. We were all worried. You couldn't eat. You couldn't sleep. All you could do was fret over what was about to happen with the Black Eyed Peas' label and their legal battle ...

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The poop is hitting the fan with the Black Eyed Peas. BMG Rights Management — the music publishing company for the Grammy-winning group behind “I Gotta Feeling,” “Boom Boom Pow” and “Where Is the Love ...

A Black Eyed Peas song is at the center of a lawsuit filed against the makers of a pooping unicorn doll for copyright infringement. There’s a lot packed into that sentence, so let’s break it down.

Toymaker MGA Entertainment has settled with BMG in a copyright lawsuit over MGA's parody of Black Eyed Peas' 2005 hit, "My Humps," used in a television commercial. The amount of the settlement has not ...

The new lawsuit sets the stage for a battle over copyright "fair use" and the legal protections for parody songs. By Bill Donahue Music publisher BMG is suing a toymaker for promoting a brand of ...

Forget Hatchimals, one of this year's must-have holiday gifts is -- oddly enough -- a $50 toy unicorn designed to leave behind a glittery, gooey surprise in a tiny plastic toilet. Aptly named Poopsie, ...