Originally posted on Four Nights of Music Rights:
The following is from Chris’s presentation at the California Copyright Conference “Legal Eagles” Panel on 9/11/12 in Los Angeles.  Chris covered the new streaming mechanical rates that are expected to soon be in effect.  See complete proposed regulations in the Federal Register. Service Type Definitions 2012 Rate…

Originally posted on Four Nights of Music Rights:
You can get your class materials for Week 1:  Songs and Sound Recordings: Who Owns What and How the Money Flows under the “Class Materials for Download” tab from the home page of this blog.  This will be true every week and you will see some materials…

A helpful comment from a reader with a Swedish IP address notes that the screenshot we produced yesterday for thepiratebay in Autocomplete cannot be replicated today and it does appear that Google was able to delete the term from Autocomplete: So we are all relieved that Google was able to actually delete the term from […]

Big story in CNET from Dara Kerr “Google Wipes Pirate Bay from Autocomplete Searches“–and a wise reporter hedges her bets.  Sort of. It seems like Google is finally complying with the Recording Industry Association of America’s wishes by not showing alleged copyright infringing Web sites in its Instant and Autocomplete search features. According to TorrentFreak, […]

[Here’s a reblog from September 2012–the CDA safe harbor was finally cut back today.] Remember Google’s human trafficking problem?  Let’s check in and see how successfully the company is hiding…I mean solving…that problem.  (There will be screen shots that are easier to read at 200% so you may want to adjust your browsers.) Google users are […]

We have a new addition to our recommended blogs, Vox Indie edited by our friend Ellen Seidler, a leader in the independent film community (follow @voxindie).  Ellen is no stranger to MTP readers.  She was the first to identify just how deeply Google provides the financial support for massive theft through brand supported piracy in her writings […]

Has anyone Seen them in the same room At the same time? “Musicians: Solve Your Obscurity Problem and the Rest Will Follow” is the latest in a long line of apologias by the rationalist school of Internet consultants (aka hucksters), surfacing on the aptly named Hypebot by someone hyping their company.  These people seem to think that […]

Lyrics007 is one of the top illegal lyrics sites, but gets the blue chip advertisers like McDonalds as we have noted before (see their Google Adsense publisher code above–this is the code issued by Google so that they know what inventory is available to serve ads to and who to pay). What’s interesting about Lyrics007 […]

Mysteriously–Grooveshark was made available in Android Market on Wednesday but was pulled down again–for the second time–on Friday according to Digital Music News.  This is getting to be about as predictable as accounting for direct license deals under a blanket license. Is it that Google’s right hand just doesn’t know what the left hand is doing?  Is […]