MTP readers will not be surprised to know that YouTube brazenly continues its business model of profiting themselves from human misery and promoting crime. Yes, they want to be just like television except for the standards and practices part. We’ve found a host of unsavory videos being blasted into your homes by the biggest video […]
Suzana Barbosa is a Canadian artist who walked from Los Angeles to the Googleplex (well…not inside the Googleplex) and used her #walkmilesformusic campaign to call attention to the absurdly low streaming royalties that are cannibalizing sales. In a serendipitous coincidence, Suzana’s protest coincided with the release by the Copyright Board of Canada of its new […]
As we’ve discussed several times on MTP, songwriters and publishers who are compelled to accept a compulsory license under Section 115 have no way to know whether any of their statements are correct because the government denies songwriters and publishers the right to audit any royalty statement under the compulsory license. Instead, songwriters are put […]
The U.S. Copyright Office is conducting a “Music Licensing Study” as part of the government’s overall review of the U.S. copyright law with an eye to potentially overhauling the entire copyright system. (See “The Next Great Copyright Act” by Maria Pallante, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office and the nominal go-to person for the […]
Trichordist makes the excellent point that the “public database” is a canard in search of a dodge. The GUID concept is duplicative. It is also derivative of SNOCAP. It’s like if you told someone the story of Alan Turing and they came away thinking it was all about having a hobby of long distance running. […]
As MTP readers will recall, YouTube has finally overplayed its monopoly and tried to extract concessions from independent labels to license for a completely different service by threatening a cutoff from YouTube. And, of course, when YouTube says “cut off” from YouTube, what they mean is they will still let “user generated content” created from […]
Originally posted on The Trichordist:
Here are the comments I filed with the Copyright Office concerning the continuing use of compulsory licenses by services with histories of non-payment and other abuse. Dear General Counsel Charlesworth: I am a songwriter and performer of some note. I have been writing, recording and producing albums for over 30…
…there was lunch in the larger, first floor cafeteria where, in the corner, on a small stage there was a man, playing a guitar, who looked like an aging singer-songwriter Mae’s parents listened to. “Is that….?” “It is,” Annie said, not breaking her stride. “There’s someone every day. Musicians, comedians, writers….We book them a year […]
Rep. Nadler Calls for Comprehensive Update of Music Copyright Laws WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered an opening statement at the hearing on “Music Licensing Under Title 17 Part One.” “With colleagues on both sides of the […]
Any artist or songwriter who watched Pandora executives enrich themselves and then wring their hands about artist and songwriter royalties has probably wondered what can I do about it? Anyone who has watched YouTube scam their way into existence hiding behind a “catch me if you can [afford it]” interpretation of the DMCA and then […]
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