CNN and Freeplay Music Settle a $17 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

In late November of 2022, Freeplay Music filed an over $17 million copyright infringement lawsuit against CNN, alleging the unauthorized use of about 115 works in some 280 of the network’s segments. Now, the involved parties have settled the high-stakes legal battle.

22-year-old Freeplay (repped in the case by veteran entertainment attorney Richard Busch) and CNN just recently submitted their notice of settlement, which DMN obtained. As reported approximately nine months back, the production music library’s suit claimed that CNN had without a license used protected tracks on CNN Philippines (73 works in 169 videos), CNN Indonesia (40 works across 91 videos), and CNN Chile (three works in 19 videos).

Additionally, the Scott Schreer-founded plaintiff maintained that the defendant network had re-aired the segments and music in question in the U.S. on CNN International. (Song monitor TuneSat picked up on and informed Freeplay of the alleged infringement, per the legal text.)

Read the source article at Digital Music News