Music Law

It's quite a statement, but one backed by reality. Because underneath the 'legitimate' iTunes success story, there lie billions of stolen MP3s and otherwise unpaid collections that powered the success of the i... Read More...

Grooveshark is now substantially reducing its subpoena demands against Digital Music News, based on financial issues and intensifying litigation pressures. In the latest court hearing Tuesday, Grooveshark attor... Read More...

The following comes from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorneys Corynne McSherry and Cindy Cohn.  The team just forced the disclosure of court documents that expose outrageous details about the seizure ... Read More...

On Wednesday, several major music industry organizations, corporations, and a multitude of law firms announced an 'historic' accord related to mechanical licensing rates. That includes the RIAA, whose seven-fi... Read More...

Grooveshark and its parent company, Escape Media Group, are now exerting heavy pressure on Digital Music News to enforce a subpoena related to an alleged whistleblower.  The company is now marshalling the resou... Read More...

Rhapsody has been in the market for more than ten years, and they've licensed - and relicensed - the major labels over and over again. They also have more than one million subscribers, but they've accomplished... Read More...

Music is fashion, and sometimes it's hard to tell where the runway ends and the stage begins. But incomplete licensing will draw another type of fashion police, which is why attorney Steve Gordon penned this c... Read More...

So how's that Google relationship working out, anyway? Warner Music Group ex-chairman Edgar Bronfman just called 'Google Music' an 'oxymoron,' and trade group IFPI recently broiled the search engine for disprop... Read More...

There seems to be another motivation for Grooveshark's aggressive, far-reaching subpoena against Digital Music News: paranoia. According to an email recently sent to a large number of industry executives, a top... Read More...