March 19, 2019
Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar and visual artist Lina Iris Viktor have agreed to end a copyright dispute in Manhattan federal court, resolving Viktor's claims that Lamar and others copied her artwork in the music video for a song from the "Black Panther" soundtrack.
October 24, 2018
A New York federal judge refused Wednesday to give hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar a partial win against a visual artist's claims that the Pulitzer Prize-winning musician ripped off her artwork to create the music video for the hit single to the blockbuster superhero film "Black Panther," finding that his arguments are premature and "entirely abstract" at this point in litigation.
February 21, 2018
A visual artist sued singer-songwriter Kendrick Lamar and several record labels for alleged copyright infringement Tuesday, saying they used her artwork in a "Black Panther" soundtrack music video after she twice denied permission.