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. A bill in the US is moving ahead that would tack on a brand new tax onto public radio broadcasters where if radio plays music, [...]
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 many stations offline. It seemed all hope was lost until yesterday when a company called Royalty Logic filed a motion in a Washington Appeals [...]
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 copyright bargain.
The United States copyright industry is credited for numerous instances of enforcing their copyright’s internationally. The most recent example is the case between [...]
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 put a levy on iPods and other portable media devices
“I would allow the applications for judicial review, quash the decision of the Copyright Board dated July 19, [...]
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 lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court and made public on Wednesday, Ono alleges that Capitol Records and its parent company EMI Group PLC not only [...]
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 work, less VAT. A minimum of four pence will be paid if tracks are discounted.
An alliance of the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society and the Performing [...]
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 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that “chat rooms” and “social networking sites” be rendered inaccessible to minors, an age [...]
‘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 Francisco veterinarian who tours as Dr. Elmo, joined a list of plaintiffs that already includes rockers Cheap Trick and The Allman Brothers Band.
The lawsuit was [...]
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 representing songwriters, publishers and performers, told us today.
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At a MusicAlly music industry seminar this week, MySpace’s European VP rejected the [...]
