The 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, 2016America’s two leading performance rights societies, ASCAP and BMI, will fight the decision...
Posted on November 16, 2016TOKYO—Sweden’s Spotify AB has joined other online music providers trying to crack the Japanese market...
Posted on September 29, 2016Last week's judgement by US rate court Judge Louis L. Stanton to overturn the US Department of Justice decision to...
Posted on September 22, 2016On Friday, a federal judge threw out the U.S. Department of Justices interpretation of the BMI consent decree.
Posted on September 19, 2016
