by anickow | Oct 30, 2011 | Commentary, Technology |
How much do streaming services pay artists? The question has been asked with increasing frequency of online services from Spotify to Rhapsody and even iTunes, yet is often met by disparate – and thus unenlightening – figures, or naïveté. Illustrating...
by mjhealy | Jan 18, 2011 | Commentary
The recent UMG v. Augusto decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals provided consumer copyright advocates with plenty of reasons to celebrate. But before popping the last bottle of champagne, it would be prudent to wait and see the extent to which, if at all, the...
by Travis Rimando | Dec 31, 2009 | Cases
The topic of music royalties has come up time and again in 2009, from the introduction of the Performance Rights Act, currently making its way through Congress, to various digital performance royalty rate disputes, from Internet broadcasts to satellite radio. To end...
by Grace L. Wang | Nov 24, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
When teen pop star Justin Bieber’s signing became a riot of teens on Friday around 2:30pm, police were called in to control the crowd. Unable to quickly contain the situation, they asked his label’s VP, James A. Roppo, to send out a tweet to cancel the...
by Travis Rimando | Aug 7, 2009 | Cases |
The lawsuit between rock artist Jackson Browne and Senator John McCain and the Republican Party was recently settled, and ordered dismissed on August 4, 2009, almost a year after the suit was filed by Browne. Browne filed a lawsuit against McCain, the Republican...
