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4 Oct 2011, 1:13 pm by David Kravets
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, asked the justices to review a lower court decision that said downloading songs from iTunes, Amazon, eMusic or even music-sharing services do not count as public performances, and hence additional royalties are unwarranted. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 6:29 am by Tom Bolt
(BMI) and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the dominant publishing rights organizations in the United States, file upwards of 400 copyright infringement lawsuits each year against food and drink establishments whom the organizations allege have failed to pay for the right to play their music in public spaces. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 12:04 pm
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, was attempting to wring even more royalties from music lovers, who already pay ringtone royalties when they buy ringtones. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 9:11 am by Kate Battle
  During law school, I was a summer associate for Lawyers for the Creative Arts and the Entertainment Law Office, as well as an intern for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 11:51 am
It is unclear what, if any, action they plan on taking against Action Replay or other movies that may resemble Button. 3: Songwriter retires as head of music rights group Finally today, after a 15-year stint, Marilyn Bergman is stepping down as the president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which is a royalty collections and lobbying group that works on behalf of songwriters and other copyright holders. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 6:01 am by Nancy Prager
The vast majority of owners of copyrights in musical compositions in the United States are aligned with one of three performance rights organizations (a “PRO”): The American Society of Composers and Publishers, Broadcast Music, Inc. and SESAC. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 6:28 am
The two largest organizations, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and Broadcast Music Incorporated, together represent the writers of millions of songs. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 9:07 am by Jonathan Bailey
While this may or may not be true, this comes as Britain is dealing with the Digital Economy Act, which asks ISPs and search engines to do more to stop copyright infringement.3: ASCAP Files 21 Copyright Suits Against Bars and ClubsFinally today, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers filed suit on Monday against 21 bars and clubs across the country for performing songs in their catalog without a license. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Like other patriots, Patrick Henry did not acknowledge the hypocrisy of opposing tyranny over white Americans while defending it for blacks. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 5:00 am by Ruth Carter
I didn’t find Disney on American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which is an organization that licenses music and collects royalties for over 435,000 artists. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 7:56 am by Eugene Volokh
" 6 Nathan Dane, General Abridgment and Digest of American Law 226 (Boston, Cummings, Hilliard & Co. 1823). [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 7:26 am
See for example, the case of Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v Bell Canada 2012 SCC 36, where the plaintiff challenged as infringing, the activities of the defendant in permitting its customers to listen to 30-second preview of songs to enable them make a decision regarding downloading the full song for a fee. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 12:38 pm by Ilya Somin
The cotton grown by slaves in the antebellum South, for example, was considered vital to the American economy. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 10:04 am by Sandy Levinson
Lincoln cannot conscientiously submit, he thinks, to the decision of a court composed of a majority of Democrats. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 9:16 pm by Kenneth Anderson
But many thinkers and political actors, lately, seem to prefer Hobbes’s vision of society to theirs. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
More importantly, respect the right of every American to make her own political and religious decisions and to say what she wants. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 8:00 am by Ben
The judge stated: “The degree to which plaintiffs succeeded in this litigation, and the inestimable benefit they have conferred on the public through doing so, renders this the type of lawsuit that should be encouraged in order to promote the purposes of the Copyright Act”.More from the USA: The Music Modernization Act, which quickly passed the House unanimously in April, and the through the Senate Judiciary Committee, looked in some trouble after an objection by collection… [read post]
14 May 2023, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
By also excluding women from suffrage, gainful occupations, property ownership, parental authority, and the right to refuse sex, legal patriarchy established an infrastructure by which society could perpetuate itself, through childbearing, childrearing, and economic provision for those who spent their time on these demanding reproductive functions. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 12:29 pm by David Kravets
” The appeals court ruled the case “illustrates how the sequence of a person’s movements may reveal more than the individual movements of which it is composed. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 5:28 pm
District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) holding that downloads of music over the internet did not constitute a public performance under copyright law. [read post]