Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the hit Oh Happy Day, has died at the age of 74.
Posted on January 16, 2018The time for action on music licensing reform legislation—including a performance royalty on radio airplay—has come...
Posted on January 9, 2018The U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan will be the venue for the next face-off over how music copyright law should be applied.
Posted on November 9, 2017The Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court in New York to overturn a lower court ruling and...
Posted on September 7, 2017The goal of the legislation is to bring songs made before 1972 into the federal copyright system.
Posted on July 20, 2017The U.S. music community is reaching across the Atlantic to advocate for passage of the proposed Fair Play Fair Pay Act...
Posted on May 26, 2017The music industry has fired off a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees asking them to loop a performance royalty...
Posted on May 8, 2017In a victory for broadcasters, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has cited a New York state appeals court's ruling that there...
Posted on February 17, 2017Broadcasters won a court victory in the ongoing battle with artists over compensation for older music played on radio and TV...
Posted on December 21, 2016Early work of the Beatles, Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and other songs authored before Feb. 15, 1972, may not cost satellite radio provider SiriusXM anything to play anymore...
Posted on December 21, 2016
