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China Begins New Era of Copyright Protection
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HypeBot
This guest post is by Mathew D, Vice-President of R2G/wa3.cn, one of China's leading digital music distributors. He blogs on the music industry and copyright reform in at The Global Outpost. New music copyright protection guidelines have been announced by the Beijing Copyright Bureau which aim to redress the burden of proof imbalance between copyright owners and those engaging in and in many cases, profiting from institutionalized piracy. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press and Publication (Copyright Bureau) brought together ...
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EMI Pulls Digital Rights from ASCAP in Radical Plan to Streamline Licensing
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HypeBot
In a radical shift, EMI Music Publishing today announced that it is taking back the responsibility for licensing digital rights in North American from ASCAP. The performance rights society will continue to license EMI's performance rights for traditional media services, including television and radio stations. As digital music innovation has picked up pace, bundled rights and one stop licencing has become the mantra of music tech startups and academics. But until today, no major player had taken real steps to ...
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Breaking: Court Tosses Verizon Net Neutrality Appeal...
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Digital Music News
A set of judges at the US Court of Appeals have tossed an aggressive net neutrality appeal by Verizon, citing procedural problems and technicalities. But this is just one skirmish in a much bigger turf war. Essentially, Verizon was attempting to preemptively strike net neutrality rules from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), citing legal jurisidiction problems. Verizon feels the FCC is overstepping its bounds by regulating broadband, including aspects related to bandwidth throttling and neutrality aspects. Those challenges may ultimately ...
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Obama Officially Backs Performance Radio Royalties...
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Digital Music News
Maybe this was the change that Obama was referring to? Just this afternoon, the White House recommended a number ofchanges related to online piracy, counterfeiting, and on-air broadcasting. That includes support for on-air performance royalties, a major development for labels. And, it also potentially includes felonies for illegal streaming of content, depending on how some very vague definitions sort out. White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel (pictured) made the formal recommendations. The proposed royalty requirement predictably drew the ...
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European Aritists Form Coalition to Fight for Rights
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HypeBot
Four groups representing some of Europe's top musicians, djs and managers have joined together in a call for European legislation to protect artists. Younison (Belgium), The Featured Artists Coalition (UK), Technopol (France) and DJ Monitor (Netherlands) have formed an alliance to demand European legislation which enforces “precise, regular and transparent redistribution of all revenues from the digital exploitation" of copyrighted works collected by European collecting societies. The groups collectively represent almost 5,000 artists. Among the artists and music managers included ...
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The Music Piracy Debate Marches On
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HypeBot
Earlier this week, Hypebot asked readers if they were over the whole “music piracy" thing, and somewhat surprisingly a resounding “NO“ echoed through the comments. I say “surprisingly" because you surprise and delight us every day with your comments. While music piracy is certainly an important topic that we would never stop writing about, it's always good to check in and seek your opinions. And if your comments, rallying, and blog posts are any indication, the music piracy debate marches ...
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Trial To Determine Damages Suffered By Experience Hendrix In Trademark Infringement Case Set To Begin May 2, 2011
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Michael Ricci
Seattle, March 10, 2011—In March, 2009, Experience Hendrix, LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company founded by James A. “Al" Hendrix, father of Jimi Hendrix, entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, filed a lawsuit against Andrew Pitsicalis and his companies. That suit, filed in Federal District Court, contended that unauthorized use of Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix' trademarks by Pitsicalis, including the companies' headshot logos and Jimi Hendrix signature marks, was an infringement of those federally registered trademarks. ...
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