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A Crash Course In Music Licensing

Paul Resnikoff
October 22, 2012
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The following lesson in Licensing 101 comes from Soundreef, a European upstart focused on background music monitoring and collections. Soundreef ultimately wants to replace entrenched performance rights organi... Read More...
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Copyright: It’s Corroding Musical Creativity In America…

Paul Resnikoff
October 21, 2012
Throughout American history, the duration of copyright has gotten longer and longer. The Copyright Act of 1790, which was a copy of the UK's Statute of Anne, granted fourteen years of protection. Fast-forward t... Read More...

More Than 10,000 Radio Stations Are Now Taking Legal Action to Lower Their Royalties

Paul Resnikoff
October 17, 2012
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Pandora isn't the only one trying to reduce its payments to musicians and songwriters. Right now, in a federal courtroom in Philadelphia, a consortium of more than 10,000 traditional radio broadcasters is taki... Read More...

Breaking: Universal Music Licensing eMusic; Action Starts November

Paul Resnikoff
October 12, 2012
Universal Music Group has now licensed a substantial portion of its catalog to eMusic, according to details shared with Digital Music News early this morning. The track count is roughly 250,000, specific to ... Read More...
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A Plea to End Internet Radio Discrimination, from the Founder of Pandora…

Paul Resnikoff
September 21, 2012
The following plea comes from Pandora founder Tim Westergren, who is now appealing to listeners to help protect not only his company, but internet radio as well. This was posted on the Pandora website ahead of ... Read More...
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Indie Label Century Media Is Now Suing Thousands of File-Swapping Fans…

Paul Resnikoff
September 18, 2012
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We've seen something similar in Hollywood, particularly when indie studio Voltage Pictures doggedly pursued downloaders of The Hurt Locker.  In music, 'suing fans,' whether you agree with the practice or not, h... Read More...
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Judas Priest Is Now Considering Legal Action Against The Gap…

Paul Resnikoff
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Tellingly, we couldn't find the offending t-shirt on the Gap website, for good reason.  And after weeks of comparison and debate, Judas Priest is edging closer to taking legal action against the retailer.  The ... Read More...
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Turntable.fm Is Now Being Forced to Remove Tracks…

Paul Resnikoff
September 7, 2012
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This couldn't come at a worse time, especially for a company struggling against sagging traffic levels and fleeting buzz. But Turntable.fm is now being forced to remove tracks from DJ queues, based on - you gue... Read More...
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I’m Here to Defend My Book, ‘The Beatles: Extraordinary Plagiarists…’

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If you have the balls to write a book like The Beatles: Extraordinary Plagiarists, then you probably also have the balls to defend it.  Last week, author Edgar O. Cruz battled a litany of attacks - often person... Read More...

The Battle Against Piracy, circa 1906

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"You may be too young to remember this, but..." It turns out content 'piracy' has been a battleground for centuries.  And many of the prophylactic solutions remain the same.  Here's one an ad for protective co... Read More...
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Good News: The FBI Has Classified Your Fanbase As a Violent Gang…

Paul Resnikoff
August 13, 2012
Show me a band that thinks it's 'all about the music,' and I'll show you a band with 14 listens on Spotify.  It's just never that simple; the notes and lyrics rarely exist in isolation. "It's all about the mus... Read More...
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Fallen Entrepreneur: “It’s Actually Impossible to Run a Fully Legal Music Service

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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...
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