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OK Go, the band is being sued by a breakfast cereal manufacturer

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment Cereal, Copyright, Lawsuit, OK Go, Post, Trademark

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 of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: AI and music

November 17, 2022November 16, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Copyright, Songwriting

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 of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Muse vs. Celine Dion

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Celine Dion, Copyright, Las Vegas, Muse, Trademark

Sounds like the guys in Muse were always keen on world domination and had some good advice on how to

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Music Industry 

This guy says he has a solution to copyright infringement on YouTube

July 31, 2022July 31, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Copyright, Infringement, MrBeast, Takedown, 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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Music Industry 

Canada is again on American sh*tlist when it comes to enforcing copyright

April 30, 2022April 29, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Copyright, Intellectual Property, Notorious Markets List, Special 301 Report, Trademark

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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Music Industry Music News 

Sanity prevails in the Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” plagiarism trial

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Copyright, Ed Sheeran, Plagiarism, Sam Switch, Shape of You

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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Music News 

RIAA takes swift action against HitPiece and warns any potential copycats to reconsider

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Copyright, Fraud, HitPiece, intellecutal property, iTunes, NFT, Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, Scam, Spotify, Theft

Rarely does anything within the music industry move fast. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, has a fire

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Music News 

Day two of the HitPiece saga: Major artists involved, but were any laws broken? 

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Apple, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Disney, DMCA, Hidden Pony Records, HitPiece, iTunes, Mike Renaud, NFTs, Nickelodeon, Rory Felton, Slaight Music, The Human Fly, Trademark

Within a calendar day of making a notoriously terrible first impression, HitPiece has zapped its website back to life, smug

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Music Industry 

How much would The Beatles catalogue sell for?

January 1, 2022January 3, 2022 Alan Cross 6 Comments Beatles, Copyright, Paul McCartney, Song Catalogues

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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Music Industry 

What’s this Jesus and Mary Chain lawsuit against their former record label? And why should we care?

June 15, 2021June 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Copyright, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jim Reid, Section 203, William Reid, WMG

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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Opinion 

Let’s take a look at Donald Trump’s musical legacy

January 25, 2021January 24, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Copyright, Donald Trump, Neil Young, performance rights, Village People

[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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