Unpaid interns settle with Warners in the US

Warner Music has settled a class action accusing the major of breaching U.S. employment laws through its past internship programmes. The legal action by two former unpaid interns at Warners - Justin Henry and Kyle Grant - led to a class action lawsuit which claimed to represent 3,000 past interns at the record company and its subsidiaries. The class action will need court approval which is planned for early March. A number of other U.S. media and entertainment companies have been hit with similar lawsuits.

Bieber noise suit filed

A woman in Oregon is suing Justin Bieber because she claims his fans's permanently creaming damaged her hearing and that the diminutive star encouraged this. Stacey Wilson Betts claims that she attended a Bieber gig in Portland a year ago with her daughter, and that her hearing was damaged during a sequence when the Bieber flew over the crowd in a heart-shaped gondola. 

The defendants include Promoter AEG Live, venue owners Vulcan Sports & Entertainment, Bieber and his label.