TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2024

In the UK, music industry group BPI has enetered the mix, targeting AI-generated voice models and cover tracks. In so doing, they are endangering the future success of British musicians and their music.” This use of copyrighted music, combined with the commercial nature of Jammable, is not allowed according to BPI.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2024

App stores are littered with apps that promise free access to music, but only few live up to expectations. The music app made headlines in 2016 when its founders, who were teenagers at the time, presented their brainchild in an episode of the Canadian edition of Dragons’ Den. Musi is one of them. million mostly positive ratings.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2024

Music piracy has been around for decades and there are no signs that it will disappear anytime soon. While legitimate subscription streaming services are commonplace today, some people prefer to download or rip music instead; particularly people with limited financial means. That’s a problem for labels and music publishers alike.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2024

major record labels, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, filed copyright infringement claims against two artificial-intelligence (AI) music start-ups, Suno and Udio. On Monday, June 24, 2024, the three U.S.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Last week I posted a blog on the American Music Fairness Act (AMFA), draft US legislation that seeks to end the exemption that US terrestrial broadcasters enjoy with respect to payment of broadcast royalties to performers and labels for playing recorded music.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The disagreement was over who held the copyright to a series of murals that … Continue reading "Michelle’s Country Music Murals: An Update?" that I wrote a couple of years ago about muralist Michelle Loughery and her copyright dispute with the Merritt Walk of Stars Society.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Kicking off the new year, the Copyright Alliance and Music Law Pro co-hosted Music Royalties 101 to help music creators navigate the various revenue streams to ensure proper collection of […] The post Music Royalties 101: Your Music Questions Answered appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

However, there is another element at play, and that’s the changing nature of music itself. Too Many Cooks… In 2017, Music Week performed a study looking at the top hits of the year 2016 and found that the songs had, on average, 4.53 In short, it’s getting much more complicated to write and publish. Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2024

“Home Taping is Killing Music” implied that if piracy continued, people would stop making music. One Anti-Piracy Strategy Consistently Performs The best anti-piracy strategy is the accessible content at a fair price strategy, and after a reluctant start, the music industry is still leading the way, and reaping the rewards.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has blasted a preliminary injunction request from several music publishers suing for alleged infringement of copyrighted lyrics to train Anthropic's chatbot Claude, telling a California federal court the publishers have not shown they would suffer irreparable harm before trial.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In recent years, music and movie companies have filed several lawsuits against U.S. Most notable is the ‘$1 billion damages award a jury awarded in favor of several music companies. Music Companies Sue Verizon This summer, dozens of record labels, assisted by the RIAA, filed a new copyright infringement lawsuit targeting Verizon.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

After filing copyright lawsuits against early peer-to-peer file sharing services and emerging mostly victorious, the global music industry found that any depressant effect, on pirate content availability and consumption, was insufficient. That eventually became unpleasant for everyone and as an anti-piracy strategy, also insufficient.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This includes text but images, videos, and music are regularly posted as well. Music companies have repeatedly complained about X too. Swiss music collective management outfit SUISA Digital is one of these complainants. To compensate for the alleged wrongdoing, the music rights group demands monetary compensation.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Earlier this year, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others filed a complaint at a Nashville federal court, accusing Elon Musk’s X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. As a result, X is reportedly rife with music piracy. The music companies see things differently.

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IP Law 360

MAY 29, 2024

My deep and passionate involvement in playing, writing and producing music equipped me with skills — like creativity, improvisation and problem-solving — that contribute to the success of my legal career, says attorney Kenneth Greene.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them. As a result, Twitter is reportedly rife with music piracy. According to the music companies, these advertisements are also clearly visible around infringing content.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

Pretty much every decade in music history has had their copyright battles. Four headline-grabbing lawsuits in one week may be a fluke, but it is an indicator of a a growing issue for many in the music industry. Why is there a sudden increase in the number of lawsuits over popular music? Blurred Times Still Remain.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 10, 2024

Supreme Court decided Warner Chappell Music, Inc. On May 9, 2024, the U.S. 22-1078, holding that the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to obtain monetary relief for any timely infringement claim, no matter when the infringement itself occurred. By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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The Illusion of More

JULY 18, 2024

It has no force of law but instead asks Congress to sign a pledge to enshrine an unfair and unfounded policy whereby terrestrial radio broadcasters shall never pay royalties to musical artists.

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IP Law 360

MAY 2, 2024

Universal Music Group has reached a deal with TikTok that will allow its affiliated artists and music to return to the social media platform months after the companies fell out over issues of artist compensation and artificial intelligence-generated content.

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IPilogue

MARCH 16, 2022

On February 4, the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) sent a demand letter to HitPiece.com’s lawyer and its founders, demanding that it stops infringing music creators’ intellectual property rights. Music NFTs Create New Possibilities for Artists. Concerns Regarding Music NFTs.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The owner of music label Lil' Joe Records took the stand Monday as he began to make the case that the members of hip-hop group 2 Live Crew were employees, not independent contractors, when they produced their hits and therefore cannot claw back their rights to the recordings.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A music streaming service has sued Apple Inc. in California federal court for allegedly removing it from the app store based on an unsubstantiated complaint of intellectual property infringement sent in by YouTube.

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The Illusion of More

JULY 11, 2024

My view in that post was, and remains, that because the purpose of copyright law is to promote authorship, and authorship is human as a matter of doctrine, then a purpose which […] The post Music Making Gen AI: A Deeper Dive into Fair Use appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2023

Before ChatGPT and other AI tools started to dominate the news, the music industry had already shared its concerns over the potential threats posed to its business. As such, it is no surprise that the topic is also mentioned in IFPI’s annual Global Music Report , which discusses the state of the global music industry.

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The Illusion of More

JANUARY 19, 2024

In what should be a surprise to nobody, […] The post Fraud in Music Streaming on Legit Platforms appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 5, 2023

As music streaming services grow in popularity, more people have included them as part of their daily lives. On November 29th, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released its final report of its market study into music and music streaming. First, virtually anyone can share their music.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court last spring , Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of “breeding” mass copyright infringement. The attempt was partially successful; last month, the court dismissed the music companies’ direct and vicarious copyright infringement claims.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 28, 2023

Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. While the RIAA kicked off the great purge, the music group has since received help from the British music group BPI.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This includes Universal Music Group ( UMG ), which sees both the good and bad aspects of this rapidly developing technology. UMG’s Vice President of Global Content Protection, Graeme Grant, lays out the music company’s perspective in a detailed contribution sent to WIPO in advance.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 5, 2024

As a stable asset class that has fared well amid economic uncertainty, music catalogs have attracted much attention from both private equity firms and music industry corporations that are attuned to increasingly lucrative royalty fees and spikes in music streaming.

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The Illusion of More

JUNE 25, 2024

Tomorrow afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee IP Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled Radio, Music, and Copyrights: 100 Years of Inequity for Recording Artists. Witnesses to testify […] The post The American Music Fairness Act Gets a New Hearing appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

Swift, in being denied an opportunity to bid for her masters, announced in late 2020 that she would re-record her entire pre-2019 catalogue in order to regain control of her music and limit the profitability of Ithaca’s asset. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Part of its mandate is to keep an eye on how the music industry evolves. This includes legal consumption as well as unauthorized offerings, more commonly known as music piracy. Music piracy exists in various forms but in recent years stream-ripping has emerged as the most significant.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2024

Representatives from the music, movie and video game industries were among the speakers Monday at a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office roundtable regarding what legislation may be needed to address the explosion of deepfakes created with the growing power of artificial intelligence.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is a review of Music Borrowing and Copyright Law, a Genre-by-Genre Analysis , edited by Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) and Chen Wei Zhu (University of Birmingham). Heald suggests that Aplin and Bently offer one half of the response, and this volume provides the other, within the music context.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

partner for pirating music, agreeing with the Georgia lower court that the motion to set aside the roughly 10-year-old order was untimely. An Eleventh Circuit panel Thursday upheld an $11 million federal default judgment against a McKinsey & Co.

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