Hasta La Creative!

The popular site, which compiles annotations of song lyrics, had been criticized by publishers for using lyrics without permission.

The director accused the company of helping to leak an unpublished script, but a judge said his lawyers had offered no evidence of copyright abuse.

The suit, filed by several big record companies on Thursday, accuses Pandora of violating common-law copyright protections for songs made before 1972.

The suit asserts copyright infringement at the now-closed entertainment website.

Ruth Vitale, an independent film executive, was recently named executive director of CreativeFuture, a new force in the copyright wars.

A judge’s decision on royalty rates the streaming-music service must pay to the licensing group, Ascap, appears to have split the issue down the middle.

The director accused the media site of illegally posting the unproduced script. Gawker said Mr. Tarantino had made it a legitimate news story.

A federal judge ruled that Holmes, Dr. Watson and other elements contained in the stories published prior to 1923 are in the public domain in the United States.

After being called out by a publishers’ group, Rap Genius revealed that it already had a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and would pursue other deals.

The song “Blurred Lines,” which was a hit for Robin Thicke over the summer, infringes on Gaye’s copyright of “Got to Give It Up,” the lawsuit says.