Tag Archives: copyright

As Facebook continues to grapple with its role in proliferating "fake news" amidst the heated U.S. election this year, it has another showdown looming on the horizon -- this one wi... More

If 2016 was the year of the ‘value gap’ debate around YouTube and music licensing, could 2017 see music rightsholders shift some of their pressure on to Facebook? According to ... More

Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox Inc. and Time Warner Inc. units won a court order shutting down a Utah-based video-streaming business that lets subscribers pay $1 to watch Hollyw... More

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and committee member John Conyers (D-Mich.) have released a proposal that would give the U.S. Copyright Office more autonom... More

Ownership of Prince's music has notoriously been contentious, now it's the subject of yet another lawsuit. TMZ and the Star Tribune report that Prince's estate, via his label NPG R... More

A trade group that represents Facebook, Google and Amazon sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Monday that included a roadmap of key policy priorities covering topics l... More

Tuesday the world will find out who is going to be the President of the United States during the years to come. During the past several months, news coverage have been dominated... More

The hot-button issues this election can be counted on one's fingers—and for most voters, things like copyright and patent policy don't make the list. Assigned to a wonkish zone ... More

The U.S. Supreme Court wants to hear more about the legal issues underpinning a dispute over a takedown notice sent to a mother who posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her ... More

A diverse group of creative industry companies, advocacy groups, labor unions, associations, and programmers that raised concerns in April and May about the Federal Communications ... More

The abundance of free tunes uploaded to the internet each day has been making it hard for the music industry to sell them. Now, European officials have a potential solution. The Eu... More

The Copyright Alliance and CreativeFuture, two anti-piracy groups whose members include major film studios, record labels and media conglomerates, have joined forces for an open le... More

In Europe, summer is officially over. Pitched battles between traditional and digital media giants, copyright holders and networks are set to reignite ahead of new proposals aimed ... More

The media and sports industries are preparing to lock horns with the European Commission over its plans to shake up copyright law to make more films, sports and TV shows available ... More

Music fans might be understandably puzzled by how it is that new revenues from the online streaming services like Pandora and Spotify could top $2.4 billion last year, yet artists ... More

Supporters of a Federal Communications Commission item opening up the market for television set-top boxes are pushing back on concerns from the Copyright Office about the proposal.... More

The first problem facing musicians comes down to the fact that no comprehensive database of music copyright ownership exists. There are several databases, but none features every t... More

The New York Public Library (NYPL) system features more than 51 million physical items across more than 90 locations. And digitizing even a portion of that means a metadata and rig... More

Here’s the nightmare scenario if Apple removes the headphone jack on the next iPhone, as rumored: Years from now, you’ll try to plug your phone into a speaker or set of headpho... More

The U.S. Copyright Office has taken an important step, finally making it possible to file compulsory licenses digitally. In order to make things easier for publishers, MRI has buil... More