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Many personal and nostalgic items of clothing, instruments, lyric sheets, and even childhood homes with rock provenance are at auction. There are legal issues at every step of the sales.

White supremacist music has a growing place in music and print, raising many legal problems for vendors and social media platforms. And hate materials have consequences in society.

There has been a growing number of legal issues, from immigration to peace & democracy movements, involving songs and singers. Several such cases with US expatriates and international stars are examined.

The BLM movement has had a great effect upon politics and upon the music industry, and will continue to do so.

While Britney Spears’s conservatorship is the best known of such legal strategies, it is in a long trend of entertainers having such legal relationships because of personal circumstances.

After 50 years, the authorship of this classic song was contested, and Roy Head’s former bandmember finally received the proper writing credit.

Within the massive shift in monetizing artists’ archives, with many millions at stake, legal issues arise on how to apportion rights and credits. Fleetwood Mac is a good example, as the band had many personnel changes over its successful life as a group and solo careers.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have begun to spread throughout music applications, from conveying pictures to transferring ownership documents. The buyer should beware, as many of these will likely be scams.

In unusual cases, such as the US capture of Gen Manuel Noriega and the ongoing battles for Hong Kong’s autonomy from China, music has played a prominent role, by governments and protestors.

This iconic song, known for its wicked organ riff, was never credited to the member who added the distinctive sound. After nearly 3 decades, he sued to be given co-author rights. In a UK court case, he won.