Sampling has been controversial from the very start. Supporters of the practice argue that artists sample songs they love and build on them to create their…
It’s been rumored for quite some time that Google is working on an on-demand music streaming service to be run through their video streaming service…
Americans spend $21 per capita on music products, about as much as they spend today on recorded music. The figure exceeds concert grosses per head…
On February 5, 2015, the US Copyright Office released a comprehensive set of recommendations on how to revise copyright law called “Copyright and the Music…
2013 marked the first year that sound recording and musical composition copyrights could revert from labels and publishers, respectively, to artists and songwriters. The Copyright…
Fair use has always been a contentious concept. A great number of musicians, as well as artists of other varieties, include copyrighted material in their…
Records and live performances define the state of the music market. 2014 was special for two things: a consumer preference for accessing a recording with…
A&R executives are being forced to change their game. This is in part because streaming services such as Spotify and YouTube are fragmenting the music…
Jay-Z has just launched a successful bid of $56 million to acquire Aspiro, a Swedish streaming company belonging to the larger Norwegian media conglomerate Schibsted.…
As employers increasingly weigh value in real-world experience, internships have proven to be a major way for students to leverage job opportunities in their respective…
French, web-based streaming service Deezer, which has yet to officially launch in the U.S, has been vamping up its efforts here for the past couple…
“All the world’s a stage,” wrote Shakespeare in As You Like It, and he said as much in other plays. The public performance of creative…
After the music industry was shocked in the early 2000s by the growth of piracy and file sharing, many investors were skeptical about the future…