The music business has been screwed up for a hopelessly long time, but change is afoot: Congress, courts and the Justice Department are all poised in coming months to shake up how companies… Read more »
In a ruling that could put major new costs on digital radio services, a judge ruled that the music industry can claim additional copyright in pre-1972 recordings under state law. Read more »
In a victory for Comcast, a federal judge in Chicago quashed four subpoenas that would have let a porn studio identify hundreds of subscribers accused of using torrent technology to share… Read more »
Verizon Communications has had a history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it’s not a big surprise to see Big… Read more »
“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read more »
Earlier this year, Limewire agreed to pay the major record labels $105 million to settle claims that it induced its users to break copyright… Read more »
Now that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched its iCloud music service, it’s going to be scanning a whole lot of users’ music files. So what is t… Read more »
The U.S. record industry has finally exacted its tribute from Limewire, the file-sharing service that was in operation for a decade and allo… Read more »
The defunct file-sharing service Limewire is facing off with the record labels this week in front of a New York jury, and reports from the c… Read more »
The Limewire file-sharing service was shut down last year, and the only thing left now is to figure out how much money the now-illegal servi… Read more »