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Lil Wayne: 'Birdman's So Incompetent
Usher and Justin Bieber Being Sued For Copyright Infringement
USHER AND HIS PROTEGE JUSTIN BIEBER
We're About to Lose Nicki & Drake''
Lil Wayne is on the at- tack, claiming Birdman and company are so incompetent, Nicki Minaj and Drake are about to bail.
Lil Wayne filed new docs in his bitter lawsuit trying to oust Birdman from Young Money, the label that signed Nicki and Drake. Wayne says Birdman and Cash Money have grossly misman- aged the company by stiffing lots of people who are owed money, failing to fork over profits and lots of other stuff.
CASH MONEY CREW...LIL WAYNE, NICKI MINAJ, DRAKE AND BIRDMAN
Wayne claims the mis- management is so bad that
Nicki and Drake will prob- ably just jump ship.
Kanye And Kim’s Baby Celebrates 2nd Birthday At Disneyland
Usher and his protege Justin Bieber have been slapped with a $10 million lawsuit regarding Bieb’s 2010 hit “Somebody to Love.”
Songwriter Mareio Overton and singer Devin Copeland, known as De Rico, have a song of the same name and are accusing them of copyright violation, saying the track has the same time signature, beat pattern and similar chords and lyrics to their song.
“After listening to the Copeland song and the Bieber and Usher songs as wholes, we conclude that their choruses are similar enough and also significant enough that a reasonable
jury could find the songs in- trinsically similar,” Circuit Judge Pamela Harris wrote to the appeals court.
Sony/ATV Publishing and Universal Music Pub- lishing Group are among the defendants.
Overton and Copeland alleged that they brought the song to Usher in 2008, and that he liked it so much that he took it to Bieber.
The case was dismissed in March of 2014 by a U.S District Judge who felt that a jury would not be able to see any copyright infringement. However, Harris said that the lyric “somebody to love” was sung in “almost identical rhythm and a strikingly sim- ilar melody.”
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian headed to the 'happiest place on Earth' for their daughter North's sec- ond birthday.
The couple threw a party for the toddler at Disneyland in California with their fa- mous family and friends last week.
They were seen riding the carousel and Dumbo ride - posing for plenty of pictures along the way.
Despite the presumable plethora of Disney treasures
Kim Kardashian and daughter North West at Dis- neyland.
at her disposal, the newly-
two-year-old seemed com- pletely content with her bal- loon animal.
Not quite on the diva level of Mariah Carey yet, Kimye decided against booking out the entire theme park for themselves and min- gled with the common folk on the day.
And it's not beyond Kim: last week she booked out the entire Staples Center - as well as a handful of pro NBA stars - to play basketball with her hubby for his birthday.
'Inside Out' Sets Record For Biggest Original Box Office Debut; 'Jurassic World' Will Be Fastest To $1 Billion
INSIDE OUT And JURASSIC WORLD
Though Pixar’s latest movie, “Inside Out,” is the first project ever from the studio not to open number one at the box office, it did make some history.
The film's $91.1 million domestic opening weekend makes “Inside Out” the largest debut ever for an original property (a non-se- quel and non-sourced work). That surpasses the previous record holder, 2009’s “Avatar,” which opened with $77 million.
Projections last week had
“Inside Out” grossing in the neighborhood of $60 million over the weekend, but thanks to overwhelming critical re- sponse and a 51% drop in ticket sales for “Jurassic World,” the film is the sec- ond biggest Pixar opening. Behind “Toy Story 3,” which had an opening weekend of $110.3 million.
But that doesn’t mean “Jurassic World” — which had the highest-grossing opening weekend ever last week — didn’t do well its sec- ond weekend in theaters.
The blockbuster was number one at the box office once more with $102 million (“Inside Out” came in sec- ond), making it the second- largest second weekend opening of all time, just be- hind “The Avengers” at 103.1 million.
And with a worldwide gross to-date of $981 million, “Jurassic World” will likely become the fastest film to earn $1 billion worldwide.
“Furious 7” currently has the record, taking only 17 days to do it.
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