Music
News
- Class Action Filed Against Kazaa on Behalf of Customers Sued by RIAA for Shared File Folders
- Copyright Office issues six new exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA! The sixth, regarding sound recordings, is a direct response to the Sony-BMG rootkit debacle.
- Apple settles with Creative over music player patents for $100 million
- Singer loses publicity claims due to preemption - label that owns copyright is free to license sound recording as a sample
- P2P sues P2P! Patent claims from an unlikely source.....
- New law in France forces iPod and iTunes interoperability - closely watched by other EU countries
- Landmark China case enforces rights of publishers in ringtone revenues
- Music publishers going after guitar tablature sites
Blogs
Research
- Columbia's song infringement caselaw library - with audio samples for comparison!
- Future of Music coalition lobbies for public performance royalties for sound recordings - includes excellent chart explaining royalty breakdowns for different types of broadcast/streaming services
- Besek - Music on the Internet
- The circuit split over Sony was not resolved by Grokster
- Sony BMG rootkit class action settlement, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation