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Published September 21, 2015 by stark

Fairness in Music Licensing Act–The Europeans Never Thought So . . .

Section 106 of the U.S. copyright statutes grants owners of works the following rights: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based…

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Published September 15, 2015 by stark

Time to Scrap the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees?

Let’s all check our assumptions, shall we? It’s been about 101 years since ASCAP was founded. Certainly, it was a good idea at the time (songwriters and publishers joining together…

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Published August 31, 2015 by stark

SoundExchange Collects from Mixcloud, So Why Not from SoundCloud?

Although this blog focuses more on the underlying right in songs (as opposed to the sound recording right), in reviewing the 2015 (second quarter) report from SoundExchange on who SoundExchange…

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Fairness in Music Licensing Act–The Europeans Never Thought So . . .

Time to Scrap the ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees?

SoundExchange Collects from Mixcloud, So Why Not from SoundCloud?