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Oh It's Big: Piracy Crackdown Claims 82 Sites...
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Digital Music News
“Intellectual property crimes are not victimless. The theft of ideas and the sale of counterfeit goods threaten economic opportunities and financial stability, suppress innovation and destroy jobs." Attorney General Eric Holder. Surprise! Turns out that the takedown of a few rap-related sites is part of a much larger enforcement effort. In fact, a total of 82 sites have been obliterated over the past few days, according to details shared Monday morning by Attorney General Eric Holder and John Morton, director ...
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Another Strike Against 'Copyleft': Senate Judiciary Passes Hard-Hitting S.3804...
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Digital Music News
A very forceful S.3804 is moving right along, thanks to a unanimous approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. In short, the bill—known as the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA - gives the Department of Justice the ability to shut down infringing sites, among other enforcement powers. It has also been part of a rhetorical battle against the 'copyleft,' and UMGD chief Jim Urie has been rallying industry support around the initiative.
Well, looks like those ...
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Mp3tunes Asks Judge to Reject EMI Lawsuit
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HypeBot
MP3tunes has filed a motion for Summary Judgment (full filing below) in the EMI Recods lawsuit over MP3tunes' Sideload, a music search engine. EMI also complained that MP3tune's music locker is an infringement as well. Founder Michael Robertson says he's been unfairly singled out: “This case has enormous ramifications for the internet industry because all the major net companies offer services which store media files," Roberston wrote Hypebot late yesterday. “This includes their personal storage services like Google Docs, Microsoft ...
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Does the Riaa Care About Artists Getting Paid?
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HypeBot
In the midst of the discussion about Anonymous and the RIAA, one Hypebot reader had this candid statement to say about the RIAA: “The RIAA doesn't care about the artists they represent. The money they have made suing individuals for downloading music rarely makes it into the hands of any of the artists they represent, most of it goes to paying the exorbitant salaries of the RIAA staff and lobbying the government for more control over their industry." At a ...
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Are You a Publisher? Do You Like Money? Then Read On...
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Digital Music News
Label conglomerates often contain recording and publishing interests under the same roof, though no one said that this had to be a functional family. And, outside of 'married' recording+publishing corporations, quite large publishers often sail on their own.
So, it's no surprise that labels were holding mechanical publishing payouts for often indefinite periods. Part of this is borne of necessity—timing is everything, and labels frequently have to skip steps to get something out the door.
The only problem is that ...
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Want Recording Royalties? No Problem: The Hoops of Fire Are over There...
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Digital Music News
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) hates the idea of paying recording royalties on terrestrial plays. But according to details shared with Digital Music News late Monday, the NAB board of directors is still very interested in forging a sweetheart deal with the recording industry. In fact, the group is planning to float a formal compromise to musicFirst later today. So what would this deal include? According to sources, this will not be a secret deal—instead, the NAB wants any ...
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Attention Music Publishers: Claim Your Royalties Today!
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Digital Music News
The following is a special message from Harry Fox Agency, who we've partnered with to deliver this message to publishers...
Claim Your Royalties Today! If you are a music publisher who owned or administered musical works between 2007 and 2008, you may be entitled to receive royalties under Group II of the NMPA Late Fee Program, a program to distribute pending and unmatched funds owed to publishers by major record labels. To ...
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What the Music Industry Should Do About Copyright
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HypeBot
This guest post is by Charlotta Hedman (@fjoms), a journalist who blogs for the Music 4.5 project, a series of events for the tech and music industries. Copyright is confusing. Is it working, isn't it working and if it isn't working, what should be done about it? We decided that the best way to make some sense of this complicated and often vicious debate was to ask experts and commentators what they think. Here are their answers: Richard Stallman, founder ...
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