Earlier this year, the Copyright Office opened a notice of inquiry (NOI) into U.S. performing rights organizations (PROs) – asking the music industry, venues and broadcasters that hold performance licenses to weigh in on whether or not they should face any new reform. Triggered by a so-called “proliferation” of new PROs in the market, and
Mariah Carey has won a federal court ruling dismissing a copyright lawsuit over her perennial holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas is You” – a decision that cited an expert who said the songs mostly just shared “Christmas song clichés.” In a ruling issued Wednesday, Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani rejected allegations from songwriter Vince
Dua Lipa won a ruling Thursday (March 27) dismissing a copyright lawsuit claiming she copied her smash hit song “Levitating” from two different decades-old songs. The case, filed in 2022 by songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, accused Lipa of ripping off their 1979 song “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and their 1980 song
This is a scene from the Hallyu (Korean Wave) convention KCON LA in Los Angeles that ran from July 26-28, 2024. (CJ ENM) By Gil Kyuyoung The country’s copyright trade last year posted a surplus thanks to the popularity of Hallyu (Korean Wave) content. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on March 19 said
A decision last week by the Supreme Court that upheld earlier decisions by the Court of Appeal and the High Court, cemented copyright as being relationship property in the event of a partnership split. Alalääkkölä said it was “tragic for New Zealand artists”, who now needed to be on guard because from her view, it
Hundreds of Hollywood stars, including Ben Stiller, Cate Blanchett and Cynthia Erivo, have urged Donald Trump’s White House to protect film, TV and music copyrights against Big Tech and artificial intelligence. The open letter – signed by over 400 actors, directors and artists – hits back against tech giants like Google and OpenAI, who say
A federal judge is shaking up Limp Bizkit’s $200 million lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), issuing a procedural ruling that sends much of the contentious legal battle to state court but allows copyright claims to move ahead toward trial. In a decision issued Tuesday (March 19), Judge Percy Anderson said he would decline to
A new federal report on artificial intelligence says that merely prompting a computer to write a song isn’t enough to secure a copyright on the resulting track — but that using AI as a “brainstorming tool” or to assist in a recording studio would be fair game. In a long-awaited report issued Wednesday (Jan. 29),
Works by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and numerous other artists are entering the public domain this year as a major trove of copyrights expired in the US on January 1. It’s the first time in 21 years that there’s been a mass expiration of this kind, which pertains to thousands of works
(Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images) Donald Trump and his campaign are due in court on September 3, after a federal judge set an emergency hearing to address allegations that Trump has persistently infringed intellectual property rights held by the estate of the late Isaac Hayes. Could you even imagine Donald Trump taking someone else’s hard