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Czech Gov’t Drafting Copyright Bill to Legally Gut Creative Commons, Chop Creators Royalties By Nearly Half

If you ever thought that no one would ever actually legally attack Creative Commons and, if they did, you'd hear about it, consider this the article you "hear about it". ...

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Swedish Copyright Collective – Technology Is Killing the Blank Disc Star

When was the last time you burned a CD or a DVD? If you haven't done that in a while, you aren't alone according to a copyright collective that ...


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Creative Commons Responds to ASCAP

Yesterday, we reported that ASCAP said that organizations like Creative Commons were undermining their copyrights. Today, we've received an official response from Creative Commons with regards to ...

RIAA vs. Public Radio – Performance Rights Act Moves Ahead

RIAA vs. Public Radio – Performance Rights Act Moves Ahead

If one were to frame this as a case of biting the hand that feeds it, there would be plenty of people who wouldn't be surprised at the comparison. ...

Company – US Copyright Royalty Board Unconstitutional

Company – US Copyright Royalty Board Unconstitutional

There was considerable debate last year over new royalties being put in place in the US over web radio such as the idea of the royalty hike which would force ...


Europe Targets US Over Piracy

Europe Targets US Over Piracy

The United States is frequently seen as an enforcer of copyright laws. Recently, it seems as though Europe is demanding that the US holds up their end of the ...

Canada Court Kills iPod Levy

Canada Court Kills iPod Levy

Canadians may have more than potential new copyright laws to talk about now. The Federal Court of Appeals have recently quashed the Canadian Copyright board's move to ...

Ono sues Capitol Records over Lennon royalties

John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against her late husband's old record company accusing them of cheating his estate out of his royalties. In a three-page ...

Music industry settles digital royalties quarrel

A long-running digital music royalties spat between record companies and organisations collecting on artists' behalf has been settled. Copyright holders will net eight per cent of the gross earnings from their ...

Chat rooms could face expulsion

Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives. By a 410-15 ...

‘Grandma Got Run Over’ writer joins suit over ringtone royalties

The guy who recorded Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer has joined other performers in a lawsuit against Sony Music over royalties for downloaded music. One-hit-wonder Elmo Shropshire, a San ...

MySpace faces royalty challenge

MySpace should set aside some of its revenues into a pool to compensate musicians, says an industry group. "We think they should pay," a spokesman for British Music Rights, a group ...







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