In 2008, the Department of Commerce urged Congress to expand the statutory royalty scheme for digital music streaming to include terrestrial radio transmissions, arguing that…
The Protect IP Act (Senate Bill S968), short for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property, is the US Government’s…
Spotify could be in danger of becoming just another flash in the pan music service. Information about it is hard to track and inconsistent, and…
Considering the vast array of music services that were launched this year, including Amazon Cloud Drive, Spotify, and Google Music, it seems a new order…
On June 6th of this year, at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced at last plans for its iCloud service. Music, digital books, applications, photos…
Jim Vellutato is Vice President of A&R for Sony/ATV Music Publishing in Los Angeles. He is one of the most recognized executives in the field.…
The launch of Amazon Inc.’s new cloud drive and cloud player services has both the tech world and the music industry in a frenzy. Although…
One of the silver linings of the current crisis is the recognition that cooperation between business, government, academics, and the creative community is needed to…
Services like Rhapsody charge a monthly subscription fee to grant users, with browsers or mobile apps, access to an extensive music catalogue. The content is…
China’s music industry is immense and has enormous potential. It has over six hundred million users …
More than ten years have passed since the debut of Napster shook the record industry. The file-sharing software gave music listeners access to an immense …
With the advent of online marketing, social media platforms, music streaming services, and music piracy…
With the development of digital music in the mid-1990s, the act of sampling became very popular and is now a fundamental element for musical styles like Rap and Hip-hop.
The digital age of music has introduced new legal forms of music consumption that do not correlate clearly with the previous licensing laws