The U.S. Supreme Court wants to hear more about the legal issues underpinning a dispute over a takedown notice sent to a mother who posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her toddler dancing to Prince’s 1984 hit, “Let’s Go Crazy.”
Source: U.S. Supreme Court Wants Government’s Take on Copyright Takedown Case | Hollywood Reporter
Benji Rogers, founder of Dot Blockchain, has termed the arrival of Bandnamevault – a company claiming to offer the first practical application of blockchain within the music industry – as both “opportunistic” and a “land grab”.
Source: Dot Blockchain boss criticises ‘opportunistic’ Bandnamevault
Days after U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante was moved out of her job, music business lawyers and lobbyists are still trying to figure out what happened, as well as what it means for the future. While Pallante had no lawmaking power, she was the country’s top copyright official, and her sudden removal could suggest a more skeptical view of the value of intellectual property in Washington DC.
Source: Maria Pallante’s Departure From the Copyright Office: What It Means, And Why It Matters | Billboard
Tuesday’s opinion comes to the view that a definition of “repeat infringer as limited to willful infringement is too narrow,” and that a repeat infringer “does not need to know of the infringing nature of its online activities, or to upload rather than download content.”
Disney has come up with a multicurrency-capable Blockchain. This perhaps is the interesting part of the Blockchain. In the Dragonchain architecture draft, they say, “This architecture should be multi-currency capable. That is, generally that if a currency use case is defined, that a node(s) may define a currency and support its use. More than one currency may be in use concurrently on the network as a whole.”
Source: What Disney Actually Wants to Achieve With its Own Blockchain
SoundExchange has proposed a rate that is the greater of either 23% of revenue or $2.48 per subscriber per month in 2018 with annual increases. The current rates for Sirius XM are 10.5% of Sirius XM’s “Gross Revenues” in 2016 and 11% in 2017.
Source: SoundExchange Asks Copyright Royalty Board For Major Rate Increases – hypebot
Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes and AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson on Monday touted their $85.4 billion cash-and-stock mega-deal on a conference call with Wall Street analysts, repeatedly suggesting it will bring benefits for content creators, among others.
Source: Time Warner, AT&T CEOs Tout Deal Benefits for Content Creators | Hollywood Reporter
U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante was removed from her job Friday morning (Oct. 21) by the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, who supervises the Copyright Office. Officially, Pallante has been appointed as a senior adviser for digital strategy for the Library of Congress, although it’s clear she was asked to step down.
Source: Maria Pallante Removed as U.S. Register of Copyrights
Among the companies driving the future of ownership are modern sharing-economy services like Uber, cutting-edge media-delivery platforms like Spotify—and a printer company founded in March 1991.
For many consumers, music is an integral part of daily life. Most music streaming today takes place on phones and other mobile devices, but many top tech companies, including Google and Amazon, are gambling that smart technology can bring music back to the home in a big way.
Source: Smart Home Technology Is Revolutionizing The Music Industry – hypebot