Everybody knows that copyright registration is important, and that doing so in a timely fashion can provide a copyright owner a greater award in an infringement suit. With the current backlog of registrations in the Copyright office, it's especially important to get your ...
A panel I attended recently at the Recording Academy addressed digital music, particularly the problems songwriters (and record labels, artists, etc.) have getting paid for their music, particularly in the face of file-sharers obtaining copies for free. A vocal majority on the panel, and in the audience seemed to take the position that the only ...
Further follow up to my post on Wednesday regarding YouTube's automated audio-muting of user-generated videos containing unlicensed music..... According to this piece at the Hollywood Reporter.. YouTube is taking things a step further... allowing users to REPLACE offending music in video soundtracks with pre-cleared music.... (automatically?) I ask you again... does ...