In a recent study of New York, Fabian Holt describes how many small live music venues have come under threat as the market changes and…
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…
For more than a year now the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet has been conducting a series of hearings as…
Legislators have tried to adapt copyright law to new inventions since the time of piano rolls. This is because creators beg remuneration in new media.…
‘Graduated response plans’ are geared towards fighting illegal online file sharing and have been implemented over the past two and a half years in France,…
Recent debates over a pair of proposed Hollywood backed antipiracy bills have highlighted the public’s concern in allowing government control over major parts of the…
In Hollywood, they call him Dr. Evil. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, his company has stolen over half a billion dollars from copyright…
2013 will be a defining year for many artists, record labels, and the recording industry as a whole. With the clause in the 1978 Copyright…
Imagine Joe Smith as the head of a small chain of radio stations somewhere in the US’s mid-west region…
On January 20, 2010, CNET news reported that Verizon had acknowledged disconnecting the service of users who had repeatedly been accused of copyright infringement[1]. That…