A man was found liable for signing a distribution deal with Warner's ADA Latin for music he did not own.
The Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse is seen on June 07, 2023 in Miami, Florida.
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A group of independent Latin record labels and music publishers have been awarded $1.2 million in a lawsuit over the unauthorized distribution of their catalogs.
An Aug. 16 judgment from Miami federal court, obtained by Billboard, finds musician Luigui Bleand (real name Luis Alfredo Silverio) and his companies liable for infringing 40 works owned by J&N Music Group, 829Music Mundial and Mayimba Music. These include tracks by the Dominican artists Ramón Torres, Grupo Aguakate and El Chaval de la Bachata.
