Month: March

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Chinese authors' society MCSC and digital distributor R2G file a lawsuit against Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine that allegedly providing unlicensed music streaming and downloading via its website to promote traffic and increase their advertising revenues. This lawsuit marks a change of approach since negotiations did not work in 2007 when R2G could not renew their agreement with Baidu to have them block the illegal download of ringtones based on copyright works.

Month: February

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Us performing rights organisation ASCAP has reported a 9.9% increase in its collections to $ 863.3m in 2007. This is a record as the largest ever collected by any PRO.

Month: September

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BMI reports an 8 % rise in performing right revenues and distributions for the year ending on the 30th of June 2007. The amount received is the largest ever performing rights collection by any PRO. The highest percent of change of income sources came from satellite audio (+70.1%) and miscellaneous domestic (+98.1%). The biggest drop came from new media (-25.3%)