Intellectual Property Protection

We previously reported on MP3Tunes vs Capitol Records, the copyright case against digital music storage locker site MP3Tunes. The site's founder, Michael Robertson, was found guilty of copyright infringeme... Read More...

Now Sony is suing United Airlines. On Tuesday Sony Music filed a lawsuit against United Airlines, Inflight Productions, and Rightscom for playing unauthorized copies of songs on airplanes.  The Hollywood Re... Read More...

A federal judge in New York has determined that video website Vimeo has to face a copyright infringement lawsuit pursued against the company back in 2009.   When Capitol Records and other record labe... Read More...

The following guest post comes from Kristelia Garcia, a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School, and a Visiting Associate Professor at George Washington Law School.  She's also a former executive at both MySpace Mus... Read More...

Streaming is marginalizing the file-swap, but the same can't be said for lyrics. According to one major publishing executive, the web has been 'infested' with unauthorized lyrics sites for nearly two decades... Read More...

Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and Clifford Harris Jr. ( T.I.) filed a declaratory relief (obtained by the Hollywood Reporter), asking the court to assess the validity and sensibility of Bridgeport Music and ... Read More...

The Turtles are famous not only for their hits "Happy Together" and "It Ain't Me Babe", but also for numerous legal battles in the music industry. Most recently, the band sued SiriusXM for allegedly infringing... Read More...

Torrentfreak reported that a Texan bar at the Clarion Inn was fined $45,000 for hosting "pirated" karaoke songs, featuring Otis Redding, Willy Nelson, and Johnny Cash among many others. This lawsuit was one ... Read More...

The creators of Rain, a Beatles-themed musical that ran on Broadway for nine months between 2010 and 2011, are suing a rival production for copyright infringement. Let It Be, another Beatles tribute band mus... Read More...

This is a thousand times more ironic than your mustache and Pabst, and both sides are trying to make a point.  The fun started yesterday, when Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC created a Pirate Bay parody site, w... Read More...

Write and record a song, and copyright law protects the resulting assets. But what about the important signature style that often defines a musical group or a specific song?  Things like instrumentation and gui... Read More...