Sheriff admits he’s playing Taylor Swift songs to stop witnesses from uploading videos to YouTube
An officer in the Alameda County, CA Sheriff’s Department has openly admitted to playing Taylor Swift to prevent citizen’s recordings from being uploaded to YouTube. Guest post by Tim Cushing. Continue reading
LA court abuses copyright law to pull down recording of Britney Spears hearing
After an illicit recording of Spears’ recent impassioned plea to a judge to end her conservatorship was posted, the LA court had the recording taken down claiming copyright infringement. Guest. Continue reading
Understanding YouTube Content ID claims, disputes
As a content creator, you always run the risk of uploading copyright protected material on to YouTube. If this happens, you may be hit with a Content ID claim. Here,. Continue reading
US Copyright Office reveals new organizational structure
Everyone loves a remix, including the United States Copyright Office, which recently unveiled the finalized version of their new organizational structure, which is intended to help the organization run more. Continue reading
Will the Copyright Royalty Board share the madness of pretending that songwriters don’t feel the effects of economic inflation?
Beginning in 2006, the CRB stopped including a CPI based rate increase for mechanical royalties, but as inflation continues to grow (albeit slowly) will the Copyright Royalty Board continue to. Continue reading
Chris Castle proposes a rate-based fix for frozen mechanicals
Here, Chris Castle outlines how the ongoing frozen mechanicals dilemma facing the copyright sector of the music industry could potentially be remedied with a rate-based solution. Guest post by Chris. Continue reading
What would Taylor Swift and Eddie Cue do? One solution to the frozen mechanical problem
The Copyright Royalty Board is seemingly on the cusp of allowing a private agreement among several major industry players regarding frozen mechanical royalties to become law. Chris Castle here examines. Continue reading
Twitch makes issuing DMCA strikes against streamers easier
Responding to label demands, Twitch has added a new tool that will make slapping its creators with DMCA notices easier than ever. Timothy Geigner of Techdirt calls foul. Op-ed by. Continue reading
1000+ artists tell the government “the horror has no end” regarding Germany’s new copyright law
In response to the latest encroachment on artists’ rights, German artists are speaking out against the German government in response to the country’s wildly unpopular (at least among musicians) new. Continue reading
YouTube Checks will now warn of copyright problems before you post
Those familiar with uploading content on YouTube have likely received copyright warnings due to some graphic or piece of music in their video. Unfortunately, these warnings only came after the. Continue reading
