Photo Credit: Akshar Dave A group of music publishers is suing Elon Musk’s Twitter for copyright infringement to the tune of $250 million. But the group faces a recalcitrant Musk who isn’t paying rent—why would […]
Members of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) sued Twitter for copyright infringement in a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, today (June 14), The New York Times reports and documents viewed by Pitchfork can confirm. […]
Twitter could be on the hook for more than $250 million after the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) filed a federal copyright lawsuit claiming the social media platform “profits handsomely from its infringement of Publishers’ […]
International Confederation of Music Publishers director general John Phelan. Photo Credit: ICMP Yesterday, the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) revealed that its members’ works were being pulled from Meta platforms amid a licensing […]
Photo Credit: David Veksler Concert-memorabilia company Wolfgang’s has secured multiple victories in its years-old infringement battle with several music publishers – including the reversal of an order to pay $2.4 million in attorneys’ fees and […]
National Music Publishers’ Association President & CEO David Israelite speaking at the NMPA Annual Meeting in June in New York (Photo: Digital Music News) Apple didn’t contest a massive royalty rate increase for music publishers […]
Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. American songwriters and publishers scored a hard-fought mechanical royalty rate increase from streaming music platforms in a late-breaking decision on Friday (July 1st). […]
Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. Late last month, the three-judge Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) rejected a proposed mechanical-rate freeze for physical formats (including vinyl and CDs) and permanent […]
Shared from www.cnn.com Reuters — Google (GOOG) on Friday was targeted in an antitrust complaint by the European Publishers Council over its digital advertising business, potentially strengthening EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s investigation into […]