Music Business Journal | Berklee College of Music

The United States and Canada are two of the 174 member countries in the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Arts. This international, long-standing copyright policy...

New investment opportunities are arising in the contemporary marketplace for music fans and investors. Enabled by the positive market turnaround streaming has brought upon the industry,...

As physical record sales have declined and streaming has become more popular than ever before, we are seeing a big spike in the live music industry. More specifically, we have seen a large...

An Introduction to the Berne Convention

by Alissa Musto 1

Investing in Individuality

by Ashley Cook 2

The Significance of Radius Clauses

by Jeff Apruzzses 3

by John Lahr

A Fair Music Report

The logistics of correctly attributing the money earned from the sale and performance of recorded music has always been a daunting task. This is a global commodity that comes bundled with intellectual property rights that can differ slightly from nation to nation, and that is typically very...

by Serona Elton

The Fair Use Check

Unless you have been following the case of Lenz v. Universal Music Publishing Group1, you would probably never imagine using the words “dancing baby” and “Prince” in the same sentence. Not unless you were perhaps commenting on some home videos of Great Britain’s Prince George. The case,...

by Lydia George