The effort to curb the allegedly unauthorized use of music in apps – and to prompt action from Google and Apple – came to light yesterday, in a speech delivered by National Music Publishers’ Association president and CEO David Israelite. Speaking at the NMPA’s annual meeting in New York, Israelite highlighted songwriter and publisher revenue in the U.S. in 2021, touched upon his organization’s “legal recoveries,” and reiterated the deals that were struck last year with Twitch and Roblox after much-publicized confrontations.
Source: NMPA Sends ‘Formal Notices’ to Google and Apple Amid App Crackdown
The AFL-CIO highlights how huge media corporations are acquiring radio stations left and right across the United States. “With these big corporate broadcast companies gobble up billions upon billions in advertising dollars, the union vocalists and musicians, including session and background performers, whose work make all of it possible receive no compensation whatsoever.”
The U.S. Copyright Office’s Copyright Claims Board, a new tribunal for copyright holders seeking to collect up to $30,000 in damages, said on Thursday that it has officially begun taking cases. Parties with or without legal training can bring claims before the board for an initial $40 fee.
The final order declares Maryland’s groundbreaking, controversial library e-book law preempted by the Federal Copyright Act and blocks its enforcement, all but ending a months-long lawsuit filed by the Association of American Publishers. The final order in the case comes after Boardman issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law, and after Maryland state attorneys declined to appeal Boardman’s February 16 decision
The US “Copyright Claims Board” starts accepting its first claims this week. The tribunal, which is part of the Copyright Office, allows parties to resolve “small” copyright disputes relatively cheaply outside of the federal court system. Damages available under these claims are capped at $30,000 and the entire process takes place online, without the need to hire an attorney.
A federal court in New York has ordered motions for summary judgment by early summer in a lawsuit filed by four major publishers against the Internet Archive over its scanning and lending of print library books, putting the fate of the closely watched copyright case on track to be in the court’s hands by early fall.
