OK Go, the band is being sued by a breakfast cereal manufacturer
Back in 1986, an ice cream lover named Jane Williamson wrote to the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.
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Ongoing History Daily: AI and music
One of the biggest areas of computer science research is that of artificial intelligence. And because making music is such
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Ongoing History Daily: Muse vs. Celine Dion
Sounds like the guys in Muse were always keen on world domination and had some good advice on how to
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This guy says he has a solution to copyright infringement on YouTube
If you post music-related material on YouTube, it’s possible that you’ve had the indignity of having your content taken down
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Canada is again on American sh*tlist when it comes to enforcing copyright
US government has just released its latest “notorious markets list” which names countries that don’t do a lot to enforce
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Sanity prevails in the Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” plagiarism trial
Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the most-streamed song in the history of Spotify and has made Ed and his
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RIAA takes swift action against HitPiece and warns any potential copycats to reconsider
Rarely does anything within the music industry move fast. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, has a fire
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Day two of the HitPiece saga: Major artists involved, but were any laws broken?
Within a calendar day of making a notoriously terrible first impression, HitPiece has zapped its website back to life, smug
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How much would The Beatles catalogue sell for?
The last year featured dozens of stories about big companies snapping up song catalogues from heritage artists. (Here’s a running
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What’s this Jesus and Mary Chain lawsuit against their former record label? And why should we care?
You may have seen stories about a US$2.5 million lawsuit filed by the Jesus and Mary Chain against their former
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Let’s take a look at Donald Trump’s musical legacy
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. It could be the last word on Trump and music. But you never
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