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The basics of music licensing in digital media: 2011 update
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - USA -
June 10 2011
Businesses that are involved in digital media use music in many ways—and most require some sort of license to make the use legal.
Rush and Rush: using music in political activities (Redux)
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- March 15 2012
News reports that Rush (the band) have demanded that Rush (the Limbaugh) desist from using the band's music in his radio broadcasts have re-raised an issue we have considered here at the Signal on few different occasions.
Pandora and Canadian copyright royalties
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- September 26 2010
CBC News reported earlier this week about the lack of availability in Canada of onlinemobile streaming services in Canada such as Pandora and Spotify: "Mobile music service rejects Canada, blames fees".
Newly certified SOCAN Tariff 22.A expands to cover "video-clips"
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- October 6 2012
On October 5, 2012, the Copyright Board of Canada certified SOCAN Tariff 22.A (2007-2010) and CSI Online Musical Services Tariff (2008-2010).
The issue of copyright
- ENS - Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
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- South Africa
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- April 8 2010
Last year, Nokia launched its Nokia Music Store making it possible for South Africans to buy music using their hand-held devices or personal computers.
The internet as a technological taxi
- Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
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- Canada
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- August 1 2012
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), in recent years, has seemingly developed a newfound interest in matters of copyright which, for decades prior to the digital revolution, had been perceived as a relatively sleepy law to many.
The role of collecting societies
- Adams & Adams
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- South Africa
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- April 29 2013
If you have written a piece of music or lyrics for a song, or if you are an artist performing a song, or a record company making sound recordings
Sometimes you have to pay the piper (or his collection agency)
- Adams & Adams
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- Uganda
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- May 14 2013
A recent decision by the Ugandan Commercial Division of the High Court highlighted some of the intricacies of the functioning of the law of the
PPL, PRS and playing music in public
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom
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- July 29 2010
We reported in June 2008 that PRS for Music was increasing its monitoring of music played in the workplace and in other premises, to check whether such businesses hold the appropriate licences.
Carols by copyright
- Baldwins
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- New Zealand
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- December 11 2012
In the run up till Christmas, marketing teams are frantically busy developing products and advertising campaigns centred on exploiting the festive season and all of its financial opportunities.
Pursuing the balance in copyright
- Bennett Jones LLP
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- Canada
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- July 13 2012
One of the most important recent cases of the Supreme Court of Canada in the field of copyright law has been CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2004 1 S.C.R. 339, in which the Court breathed real meaning into the fair dealing exception, now called a user's right.
Broadcasters (needle)time to pay has come
- ENS - Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs
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- South Africa
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- August 22 2012
Life can be terribly complex
The Copyright Modernization Act: Canada’s new rights and rules
- Dentons
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- Canada
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- November 8 2012
Following years of attention and debate over issues such as “digital locks”, “users’ rights” and whether and how Canada is keeping up with other countries in protecting copyright, Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act (the “CMA”) entered into force on November 7, 2012.
Copyright in transition: Supreme Court of Canada rules on five copyright appeals
- Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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- Canada
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- July 13 2012
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada issued much anticipated rulings on a series of cases concerning copyright royalties for downloading and streaming of various kinds of musical works over the Internet, classroom copying of literary and artistic works, and recorded music in soundtracks that accompany movies and TV shows.
Music in the workplace are you compliant?
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom
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- June 19 2008
In recent months, the Performing Rights Society (PRS) has increased its monitoring of music played in the workplace, checking whether businesses hold the appropriate licence(s).
Pandor S-1 filing a trove of information
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- February 21 2011
Pandora Media, Inc.'s Form S-1 (hat tip: Geist), filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2011, offers interested readers some detailed information not just about their financials, but also about the licensing arrangements that US-based online music services have to put in place.
SODRAC's online music services (music videos) tariff proposal for 2011
- Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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- Canada
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- July 21 2010
On Saturday, June 19, 2010, the Copyright Board published the most recent tariff proposal of the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada ("SODRAC").
The Daily Copyright - business costs issue
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- June 12 2012
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Canadian copyright and campaigns - moral rights edition
- Heenan Blaikie LLP
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- Canada
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- January 28 2012
Canadian entertainment lawyers are forced to look on in wonderment (and envy?) at the plethora of entertainment law-related legal disputes which arise in the United States.