Tag: copyright

• Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court.

  January 18, 2022

  Research libraries preserve classic texts, films and recordings, but when it comes to video games, it gets complicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/01/12/video-game-preservation-emulation/ more ›

• Marvel sues to retain control of Avengers characters

  September 27, 2021

  Marvel has filed a series of lawsuits in a bid to retain full control of characters including Spider-Man and Iron Man. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/27/marvel-sues-to-retain-control-of-avengers-characters-spider-man-iron-man more ›

• Jay-Z’s NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend

  September 19, 2021

  As a young rapper, Jay-Z once teamed up with Damon Dash to sell CDs of his music out of a car in the Brooklyn projects. Today, the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella… more ›

• ‘The future of the art market’: Christie’s to become first major auction house to sell a standalone NFT work of art

  February 21, 2021

  Are NFTs a fad or do they represent the future of the art market? That is the question Christie’s appears to be testing later this month when it becomes the… more ›

• Publishers and the Smiling Curve

  December 1, 2020

  One would not normally draw a connection from a company like Largan Precision (TPE:3008), a small Taiwanese component supplier, to the publishing industry. https://stratechery.com/2014/publishers-smiling-curve/ more ›

• Music Publishing Glossary

  April 28, 2020

  https://www.songtrust.com/music-publishing-glossary more ›

• Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

  June 4, 2019

  Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems more ›

• Spotify to Musicians: Let Us Be Your Label

  November 19, 2018

  Spotify to Musicians: Let Us Be Your Label “Via” Mia Coleman was singing on American Idol at age 17, backing up rapper Anderson .Paak a few years later, and, at… more ›

• A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on a law…

  March 18, 2018

  A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on a law made for player pianos – The Verge more ›

• And it’s basically all being driven by Netflix….

  January 10, 2014

  “And it’s basically all being driven by Netflix. Everyone in the browser world is convinced that not supporting Netflix will lead to total marginalization, and Netflix demands that computers be… more ›