UMG Responds To Drake's Defamation Claims Drake's legal team argued that UMG knowingly published and profited from false claims, holding the label responsible for the song's impact.

Specifically, the complaint details that UMG facilitated the broadcasting of defamatory material to over 133 million viewers during the 2025 Super Bowl and over 15 million viewers during the ...

UMG’s need to reel Kendrick in, the suit implies, is what led the company to go so hard in promoting “Not Like Us”—to the point, Drake alleges, of using bots and payola.

UMG's AI music lawsuit, Megan Thee Stallion, DJ Envy and more are covered in this week's Legal Beat column covering legal news in the music business.

UMG: 'Fans choose the music they want to hear' UMG wasted no time to react, with the label releasing a statement to USA TODAY on Monday, hours after the petition was filed.

UMG has submitted a bid to dismiss a class action and stave off mass termination from older recording artists. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Universal Music Group has a ticking time ...

UMG has repeatedly stated that it sees potential in AI to assist artists in the song-making process, but that the music business’s stakeholders should draw a hard line at practices that infringe ...

UMG Recordings Inc, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 1:23-cv-00015. For Black Sheep: Steven Wittels and Burkett McInturff of Wittels McInturff Palikovic ...

In the end, it appears UMG wasn’t bluffing when saying TikTok accounted for only 1 percent of its total revenue. In a press release sent the day after the new deal, UMG announced a solid Q1 2024 ...

UMG took the next step toward a U.S. stock listing with a new SEC filing that puts it on track to list certain Pershing shares on a U.S. exchange.

But UMG says Dotcom got it wrong: the takedown was sent "pursuant to the UMG-YouTube agreement," which gives UMG "the right to block or remove user-posted videos through YouTube's CMS based on a ...