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Ticketmaster sued in Canada over pricing of Drake tickets
Bad Bunny sued for $40 million by ex-girlfriend over uncleared voice recording
Bad Bunny Sued By Ex-Girlfriend For Allegedly Using Her Voice In Songs Without Permission
Bad Bunny has found himself in some hot water. For, he is now being sued by an ex-girlfriend over the alleged unapproved use of her voice in his songs.
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In documents viewed by Pitchfork, Carliz De La Cruz Hernández is suing Bad Bunny over voice a memo saying “Bad Bunny,
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Finance YouTubers sued over promotion of FTX
A new class action lawsuit alleges that several well-known finance YouTubers, including Graham Stephan, Andrei Jikh, Jaspreet Singh and others, should be held responsible for promoting now-disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The lawsuit’s plaintiff is Edwin Garrison, a private investor who also filed a lawsuit against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, plus celebrity promoters like Tom […]
Finance YouTubers sued over promotion of FTX by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Strictly star sued for £200k by widow of maintenance worker who ‘died from asbestos exposure’ while working on estate
LONGLEAT’S owner and his Strictly Come Dancing star wife are being sued by a widow who claims her husband died from asbestos exposure on the estate.
Allan Keyse, 84, died from mesothelioma, an incurable lung tissue cancer, in 2019.
His family say the former estate worker was exposed to asbestos when he worked for the late eccentric Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath.
Allan’s widow Sally Keyse, 80, is now suing Alexander’s son Lore Ceawlin Thynn – married to Strictly star Emma Thynn – for £200,000.
Viscountess Emma Weymouth appeared on the 2019 series of the hit BBC dance show.
Allan worked for Lord Bath from 1961-1970 at Longleat, in Wiltshire, refurbishing and maintaining the main house, MailOnline reports.
He also carried out work on old cottages that contained asbestos and was exposed to more of the killer compound when he installed an entire asbestos barn roof, the High Court claim says.
Sally says Allan was regularly covered in asbestos dust up until 1966 due to work that also involved knocking down buildings and disposing of the naturally occurring carcinogenic fibrous material.
The family allege he did all this without any safety equipment or warnings of asbestos’s dangers, the court will hear.
In his last two years of work at the famous safari park, Allan worked in the main house away from asbestos but was still exposed to it at the park, documents claim.
Allan first noticed symptoms of mesothelioma in 2018 when he became breathless walking up slopes on holiday.
Back pain followed and he was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma in February 2019 that saw doctors drain fluid from his lung.
But Allan was not well enough for chemotherapy and needed morphine to control his pain – he died on August 7, 2019.
Sally accuses the Marquess of Bath, and his later employers Whitley Marketing Services, of negligently exposing him to asbestos and not providing him with proper safety kit.
It is understood that the marquess will be defending the claim and a defence will be filed at court shortly.
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Reddit is being sued by the creator of r/WallStreetBets
The meme stock craze that started on Reddit and took the financial world by storm in 2021 may have died down, but clearly there are people who still think the social sharing platform is going “to the moon.” And they want back on that rocketship.
Jaime Rogozinski, the creator of the popular Reddit community, WallStreetBets, filed a lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, years after the company removed him as a moderator of the subreddit. Rogozinski is looking to be reinstated as a moderator, and wants to block Reddit from using the the name “WallStreetBets,” which Rogozinski holds a trademark for.
Rogozinski founded the subreddit r/WallStreetBets back in 2012, nearly 10 years before it blew up as ground zero for the meme stock craze which saw retail investors pump stocks like GameStop and AMC to new heights in order to trigger a short squeeze, which would further inflate the value of these stocks. The popularity of meme stocks and the discourse surrounding it further boosted the WallStreetBets subreddit, which now boasts over 13.6 million subscribers.
In 2020, however, before the meme stock craze even began, Rogozinski was removed from the group he had created, and had his moderator powers stripped from him.
According to Rogozinski, he was removed as moderator on r/WallStreetBets after he applied for a trademark for WallStreetBets in March 2020. Rogozinski also published a book titled WallStreetBets: How Boomers Made the World’s Biggest Casino for Millennials that year as well.
However, Reddit claims that these actions from Rogozinski violated the platform’s policies by “attempting to monetize a community.” The company suspended Rogozinski’s account for a short time, but permanently removed him as a mod on WallStreetBets. The social media platform has also challenged Rogozinski’s WallStreetBets trademark and filed its own trademark applications for the name.
Rogozinski has defended himself by claiming he never used his moderator powers to monetize WallStreetBets and how many Reddit users market themselves and sell products. In his lawsuit, Rogozinski makes additional claims arguing that his removal from the subreddit caused WallStreetBets to spiral out of control with users sharing racist and homophobic content on the forum. According to Rogozinski, Reddit’s actions cost him “millions of dollars” in book sales and a lost contract with an esports organization.
“This is a completely frivolous lawsuit with no basis in reality,” said a Reddit spokesperson in a statement provided to Mashable. That statement continues: “Jaime was removed as a moderator of r/WallStreetBets by Reddit and banned by the community moderators for attempting to enrich himself. This lawsuit is another transparent attempt to enrich himself. It’s telling that he is filing this suit three years after he was banned by r/WallStreetBets and long after the community rose in mainstream popularity without his involvement. We’ll respond directly in court and continue to protect the best interests of the communities and moderators on our platform.”
On Wednesday, before news of the lawsuit broke, The Information published a report stating that Reddit was looking to go public this year, potentially creating a situation where the meme stock platform becomes a meme stock itself. As Gizmodo points out, this possibility has become quite the conundrum for members of the WallStreetBets community. Some Redditors worry that the company might try to “monetize the shit” out of the subreddit once it hits the stock market.
Rogozinski’s lawsuit doesn’t just ask the courts to determine who owns WallStreetBets, it also the poses a broader question: What rights does one have over a community they created on a platform like Reddit? Perhaps we’ll soon have a better idea.