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Public Performance Rights Basics

  I am sure most new songwriters and musicians are not sitting around hypothesizing the nature of public performance rights. They would probably be too stoked just to hear their song in a bar to care...

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Buy My Used MP3s!

Welcome to ReDigi: “The World’s First Online Marketplace For Used Digital Music.” Yes, you read that sentence correctly. Launched in beta version last October, ReDigi markets itself as a “recycled...

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The Grooveshark vs. Digital Music News Saga and What it Means for Bloggers

Earlier this year, Grooveshark and parent company Escape Media Group (“Escape”) filed a subpoena in Los Angeles Superior Court against Digital Music News (“DMN”).  The subpoena compelled the disclosure...

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“First Sale” Doctrine to Apply to Digital Files?: How a Recent Case Will Soon...

The Wiz? Virgin Records? Tower Records? Where do we go to browse used CDs today (with the exception of a slight few “mom and pop” shops that stood strong against the reign of an emerging Internet,...

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Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: How Far Should the Copyright Act Go to...

  Buyer beware! No, not really.  But maybe… On March 19th, the Supreme Court decided in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the first sale doctrine of the U.S. Copyright Act applies to copies...

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A Time For Revision: Thoughts On The Call For The Next Great Copyright Act

  Its been a long time coming, but a change gon’ come. The “next great copyright act” is the change that Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, is calling on Congress to make (perhaps taking a cue...

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The Free Market Royalty Act: A Look Into A New Market for Sound Recordings

This past September, Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) introduced to Congress H.R. 3219, the Free Market Royalty Act. The purpose of this Act is to provide sound recording copyright owners with the...

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How Do I Know If My Music Service Is Non-Interactive?

Good question. I wish I had a simple answer, but I don’t. As the 113th Congress eases back into its second session, I would like to propose an additional action item for their Copyright reform to-do...

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C.R.E.A.M. (Copyright Rules Everything Around Music)

it ain’t just music, it’s a piece of art, it’s a capture of time….music chronicles time, and this is a chronicle of our time….Art is art, but at the same time generations’ tastes are changing- RZA...

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