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13 Jan 2017, 5:53 am by Howard Knopf
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS ET AL, on judicial review from the Copyright Board, which was heard by the Federal Court of Appeal (“FCA”) on February 24, 2016. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 7:38 am by David Oxenford
Commercial radio broadcasters have been seeing numerous communications over the last week about Global Music Rights (GMR) and its seemingly contentious music royalty negotiations with the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC). [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 8:15 am by Eric Goldman
That post explains a lot of background about U.S. copyright law, including the distinction between musical works and sound recordings, and why February 15, 1972 is the dividing line between state and federal protection for sound recordings. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 6:00 am by Jonathan Bailey
Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: UK ISPs Will Soon Send Written Warnings to Suspected Pirates First off today, Jamie Rigg at Engadget reports that ISPs in the UK will soon begin sending out emails to subscribers that are suspected of pirating movie, TV and music content. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 9:13 am by Peter Groves
The broadcaster says it can't afford to pay that much without damaging the service it offers.Not all copyright music is off the air in Bulgaria, though. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 6:56 am by Ben
The PRO has asked for a threefold increase in its payments, saying this would bring payments into line with those made by other European public radio broadcasters to use… [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 1:57 pm by Edwin Komen and Chidera Anyanwu
The radio service broadcasts pre-1972 sound recordings, including those recorded by The Turtles, but does not pay the group or other artists for broadcasting the recordings. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 9:07 am by David Oxenford
Also on the music royalty front, for commercial radio broadcasters who are playing songs written by songwriters affiliated with the new performing rights organization Global Music Rights (GMR), they have until January 31 to decide if they want to opt into the interim licensing deal agreed to by GMR and the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC). [read post]
1 Jan 2017, 5:00 am by Barry Sookman
Smartphone patent wars redux: Nokia sues Apple, big time | https://t.co/0R7F490Rty -> Gaye estate pushes back against appeal in ‘Blurred Lines’ case https://t.co/ZixlRigKxA -> Publishers Lobby Trump About Silicon Valley https://t.co/qeShVaY4xy -> AAP Letter to President Elect Donald Trump on the value gap https://t.co/8SKTxDPhvS -> Uber Dispute, Tarnished By Surveillance Claims, Tests Power Of `Clickwrap' Contracts https://t.co/x1HM8Lr4b0 -> High Court explains… [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 1:19 pm by Jim Calloway
A lot of hyperbola in the legal blogosphere, social media and even broadcast media followed the initial coverage. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 8:37 am by David Oxenford
For broadcasters, there are numerous issues, including questions raised by new performing rights organizations like GMR that seek more and more payment for the use of the musical composition by broadcast companies (see, for instance our article yesterday about the interim agreement between GMR and RMLC and its broader implications for the radio industry) and the broadcast performance royalty for sound recordings that keeps coming up year after year (sometimes… [read post]
26 Dec 2016, 4:02 pm by Kevin Goldberg and Karyn K. Ablin
If you are a noncommercial station, you are already able to broadcast (although not necessarily stream) GMR music under a special statutory license — contact us for more information. [read post]
26 Dec 2016, 8:27 am by David Oxenford
Broadcasters need to recognize that GMR is licensing the underlying song (known as the “musical work” or “musical composition”) – the words and music to any song. [read post]
26 Dec 2016, 4:30 am by Ben
In the UK, PRS for Music and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) confirmed that, following a strategic review commenced in 2015, the two companies would create a new joint venture focusing on serving all PPL and PRS for Music UK public performance licensing customers for both music and sound recording rights. [read post]
24 Dec 2016, 7:18 am
Thrower, and WPIX-FM programming director Charlie Whittaker selected the music, based largely on the easy listening format that the radio station had then.... [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 5:25 am by Karyn K. Ablin
In what comes as an early Christmas gift for those who play “oldies” music – think Sirius XM Radio, radio broadcasters, and webcasters – and coal in the stockings of the owners of those recordings, New York’s highest state court ruled today that New York does not recognize a public performance right in sound recordings. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 5:00 am by Ben
 In a similar approach, the New York Court of Appeals (in a split 4-2 decision) said that whilst it understood the anomalies in copyright laws, it should be up to Congress to define the public performance rights sought by creators of the Turtles' music, as it did for post-1972 recordings under the federal Copyright Act of 1976.Judge Leslie Stein for the majority noted that the digital age, satellite technology and now the internet had allowed subscription music… [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 1:52 am by musicandcopyright
OTT video service growth and the challenge to broadcast royalty collections Over-the-top (OTT) broadcasting of audio and video is a delivery system that has rapidly grown in popularity, from the perspective of both distribution and consumption. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 8:54 am by David Oxenford
ASCAP and the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement for the period 2017-2021, setting the performance royalties that commercial broadcasters will pay for the use of music written by composers who are represented by ASCAP. [read post]