The US Supreme Court ruled this week that Andy Warhol infringed copyright by painting a portrait of Prince based on a photo taken by Lynn Goldsmith for Vanity Fair. Warhol’s estate argued that
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If you post music-related material on YouTube, it’s possible that you’ve had the indignity of having your content taken down because of alleged copyright infringement. This can be extremely frustrating because you might
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Tuesday was a wild day for independent artists and not in a good way. Details are still hazy but what appears to have happened is an NFT site, HitPiece, scraped digital distribution sites
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Wait. What? Damoen Riehl and Noah Rubin have set out to catalogue and copyright every single melody that’s musically and mathematically possible. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Watch.
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About ten days ago, the Geeks&Beats podcast I host with Michael Hainsworth received a takedown notice from Universal Music, alleging a copyright infringement (i.e. use of music without permission) in an episode. Hi,
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Schmooze, the elder English bull terrier, had her tenth birthday yesterday. She still thinks she’s a puppy, which is fine by me. Now some music news for May 22, 2018. Got four hours? Kanye
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We’re running out of melodies. After almost seventy years of modern rock and popular music, it’s become insanely hard to come up with a song that doesn’t sound like something that’s already been
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In what’s bound to be viewed a scary decision for internet service providers (ISPs), Cox Communications, a cable and internet company in Virginia, has been ordered to pay $8.4 million in legal fees
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A federal court in Virginia ruled that an ISP could be held liable for one of its users sharing pirated content, a decision now being supported by the RIAA and MPAA. As Torrent
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I hate to say it, but I called this one. When the “Blurred Lines” verdict came down–the one saying that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams violated the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to
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Hard to believe that after nearly 10 years, the “Dancing Baby” lawsuit is still in process. Even harder to believe the next step might be shimmying up to the dais at the US
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