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China Begins New Era of Copyright Protection
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 ...
EMI Pulls Digital Rights from ASCAP in Radical Plan to Streamline Licensing
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 ...
Youtube Makes "Copyright School" Mandatory
YouTube is beefing up its copyright infringement efforts, or at least they want to appear to be. They're now requiring that users who receive a copyright violation notification watch a mandatory 4 minute 39 second video. “YouTube Copyright School" stars the characters of the Happy Tree Friends video series, But in the two weeks since it ...
Breaking: Court Tosses Verizon Net Neutrality Appeal...
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. ...
Obama Officially Backs Performance Radio Royalties...
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 ...
The Music Piracy Debate Marches On
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 ...
European Aritists Form Coalition to Fight for Rights
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 ...
Trial To Determine Damages Suffered By Experience Hendrix In Trademark Infringement Case Set To Begin May 2, 2011
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 ...
Us Releases Official List of "Notorious" IP Infringers
On Monday, the United States Trade Representative released its official “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets," a list of internet sites which encourage or enable music and other copyright infringement. Clones of AllOfMP3 and Baidu top the list which also Included several sites who say their working aggressively to stop piracy. The Notorious Infringers List: Pay-per-download: ...
Breaking: House Republicans Move to Block Net Neutrality Rules...
Late Thursday, House Republicans voted to bar the FCC from imposing net neutrality guidelines on broadband providers. As part of an amendment attached to a larger spending bill, the FCC would be prohibited from using federal funds to force ISPs to comply with various access requirements. This is a highly contentious issue, and ISPs have serious ...
