As privacy on Facebook takes the headlines once again, music matchmaking service Pandora is being prodded over its privacy policies, too. Although this class action case involves violations of Michigan statutes, federal law is also [...]
Continue Reading →After nearly 2 1/2 years of battling, commercial Internet Radio webcasters have reached a settlement agreement with SoundExchange–an organization empowered by the Copyright Royalty Board to negotiate different royalty rates on behalf of musicians and record labels–regarding royalty payments for playing music on Internet radio stations.
Tuesday’s settlement resolved a controversy that [...]
Continue Reading →As technology continues to transform the way that consumers satisfy their entertainment needs, the contentious differences over where all the money should go become more and more visible. With the Writers Guild of America strike still in recent memory and a strike by the Screen Actors Guild threatening, [...]
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