Copyright
(Hypebot) — Ed Sheeran has won a long court battle over a plagiarism accusation regarding his hit single Shape of You. After the ...
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Artists That Plagiarized From Other Artists… Or Did They?
(Hypebot) — Did Dua Lipa steal the musical elements from a song she heard in an elevator? Keep reading to find out. A guest ...
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Who Owns Machine / AI Created Music?
(Hypebot) — If a computer automates a creative work, who owns the copyrights? The machine? The computers owner? No one? Let’s find out. ...
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Multi-Million Rights Deals Could Lead To Demands For Perpetual Copyright
(Hypebot) — Will the explosion in multi-million deals for artist rights and catalogs lead investors to push for perpetual copyrights so that they ...
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Recent Report Uncovers The Absurd Volume Of YouTube’s Absurd Copyright Claims
(Hypebot) — Youtube’s recent Copyright Transparency report reveals the superfluous copyright infringement cases it has had in the last year. A guest post by Timothy ...
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Re-Recording Old Songs: How Taylor Swift Is ‘Shaking Off’ Her Old Label
(Hypebot) — A recent re-release of Taylor Swift’s 2014 hit “Wildest Dream” is just the latest in the artist’s volley of re-recordings, and she ...
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‘Where’s My Money?’ Songwriters, Publishers Ask MLC
(Hypebot) — Thanks to services claiming their safe harbor under the Music Modernization Act Title I giveaway, The Mechanical Licensing Collective recently came ...
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Warhol v. Goldsmith: Court ‘Rolls Back Tide’ On Transformative Use ‘High Water Mark’
(Hypebot) — In the latest battle over intellectual property ownership and use, The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has started whistling a different ...
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Why Do Companies Continue To Fold Under Copyright Pressure, Even If They Shouldn’t?
(Hypebot) — In this piece, Katharine Trendacosta breaks down some of the systemic issues in the music industry which are causing companies to buckle ...
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SoundExchange Moves Into Private Copy Royalties
(Hypebot) — SoundExchange will take over the collection and distribution of domestic and foreign private copy royalties to more than 500,000 rightsholders. What ...
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