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Copyright and Technology 2022 Conference: Panel Added
We are adding a fourth panel to the lineup at our upcoming conference on Tuesday September 13 at Fordham Law School in NYC, a panel on Standard Technical Measures for content identification. We’re still looking for moderators and speakers for all panels, so if you’re interested, please send me an email indicating your name, affiliation, panel of […]
Copyright and Technology 2022 Conference Panel Lineup
As I announced a couple of weeks ago, the Copyright and Technology Conference will be back at Fordham Law School in New York City on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The conference will be hybrid, with both in-person and virtual attendance possible. (Stay tuned for info on social activities for those who attend in person.) Here are […]
Book Excerpt: The Saga of Royalties for Radio Play of Recorded Music
It’s been a while since I’ve written here. There’s a reason for that: I’ve been working on a book. I’m working with Howie Singer — digital music pioneer at AT&T, former head of technology strategy at Warner Music Group, and fellow adjunct faculty in NYU’s Music Business program — on a book about the history […]
Spotify Brings Music into Podcasts
(This is my first article in a while; I have been working on a larger-scale writing project over the past couple of months, about which I hope to be able to share more soon. I am also in discussions with the Copyright Society of the USA about the next Copyright and Technology conference; we are […]
Plugging Another Analog Hole in Music Royalties
While many areas of the music industry have digital infrastructure in place to facilitate royalty payments more or less accurately, a few analog corners remain. These are for music uses where royalties are calculated based on incomplete information using statistical samples and other “black box” methods. One of them is terrestrial AM/FM radio: performance rights […]
Journal Article on Blockchain and Music
I have an article in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, “The Future of Blockchain Technology and the Music Industry.” The article explains the basics of blockchain technology, then evaluates proposed applications of the technology to music mainly by addressing the question of whether they solve known, current […]
Conference Coming Up January 15; Program Changes
A reminder that our eleventh annual Copyright and Technology Conference is coming up on Wednesday, January 15 at Fordham Law School in NYC, co-produced by the Copyright Society of the USA and sponsored by the good folks at the Fordham Intellectual Property Institute. Online registration is still available. I’d like to announce a couple of […]
CJEU’s Advocate General Finds No Resale Right for Digital Files
The European Union’s highest court is likely to rule that, as with ReDigi in the U.S., it’s not legal to resell digital content files without the copyright owner’s permission.
Blockchain Applications for Music Enter the Bowling Alley
An interesting experiment in the use of blockchain technology was announced last week at the MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France. It involves the Israeli music blockchain startup Revelator, working with the music recognition service BMAT and the Finnish music collecting society Teosto. The application is payment of performance royalties to composers for radio airplay, […]
Article on Blockchain and Music
I have an article on blockchain technology in the music industry that has just been published in the American Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Lawyer journal Winter 2019 issue. A few errors in case citations crept in during production, so I thought I’d put the corrections on record here: p. 18: the citation should be […]
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