IMR’s Scoping Report
At the end of February, WIPO and its International Music Registry group (IMR)...
Facebook’s IPO and the Music Industry
Less than ten years ago, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg developed Facebook....
The Shackles of Copyright Law: Brazil’s Tecnobreg...
The crisis in the recording music industry has diminished the breadth and...
The Rock in Rio Festival
Nearly two months ago, and after a ten-year hiatus, Brazil witnessed the...
WIPO Tallies Song Credits Worldwide
Considering the vast array of music services that were launched this year,...
The G8 and Copyright
On May 27-28, the heads of state of the eight most industrialized nations got...
A Primer on Termination Rights
By default a person that makes an original work and fixes it in a tangible...
The Music Industry in 2011
More than ten years have passed since the debut of Napster shook the record...
Mash-Ups & Fair Use: Girl Talk
With the development of digital music in the mid-1990s, the act of sampling...
Copyright Pressures Compromise the Preservation of...
With the advent of sound recording at the end of the nineteenth century, many...
A Far Reaching Copyright Change in Brazil
The current copyright collection and distribution system in Brazil is quite...
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