April 23, 2015
Toyota Motor Sales USA agreed to settle a copyright suit Thursday, just one day after it argued that a Nevada federal judge had misconstrued copyright law by failing to find that a man who wrote a book about returning a stolen guitar to B.B. King is barred from suing the automaker over a commercial with the same plot.
March 10, 2015
Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. lost a bid Tuesday to toss a suit by an author who claims the carmaker infringed his copyright by making a commercial based on his story of finding B.B. King's "Lucille" guitar and returning it to the famous guitarist.