The competition to buy publishing and recording rights has been heating up — and now there’s a new player. Pophouse Entertainment, a Stockholm-based company co-founded by ABBA frontman Björn Ulvaeus is entering the business, with a focus on developing the rights it acquires into entertainment experiences, as well as monetizing them in traditional ways.
Source: ABBA Partner Pophouse Enters Catalog-Buying Market With Swedish Mafia House Deal
It’s been more than a decade since Capitol Records first sued an MP3-sharing site called ReDigi for copyright infringement, and nearly six years since the label won a $3.5 million judgment against the service and its founder. But according to a new lawsuit Capitol filed this month, that 2016 judgment remains “almost entirely unsatisfied.”
Source: The Legal Beat: Capitol Records & The Neverending Copyright Story
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would hear a closely-watched copyright case over a series of images of Prince created by Andy Warhol. The battle before the high court will center on whether the late Warhol made a legal “fair use” of the copyrighted photograph of Prince – snapped by Lynn Goldsmith – when he used them as the basis for the paintings.
Source: Supreme Court Will Hear Case Over Warhol’s Prince Portraits
Following the lead of projects like the Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and World of Women, the creators of Ethereum NFT project Cool Cats have signed major representation as they explore ways to expand the brand into other industries. The Cool Cats makers have signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to explore potential licensing and merchandising opportunities.
Source: Cool Cats Ethereum NFT Project Signs With CAA for Media, Licensing Push – Decrypt
In the first six months of 2021, YouTube processed four million automated Content ID claims every day but sometimes the involvement of a human being is the only way to tackle copyright disputes. To this end, YouTube is now seeking a Copyright Operations Specialist who will be required to deal with ‘escalated’ takedown requests, including those from ‘sensitive entities’.
Source: YouTube Needs a Copyright Specialist To Handle ‘High-Risk’ Takedowns * TorrentFreak
Royal, co-founded by Justin Blau, aka musician and producer 3LAU, has revealed that Diplo is the next artist to team up with Royal to sell shares in his streaming royalties. Diplo will release Don’t Forget My Love, the first single from his recently released self-titled album on Royal, on Tuesday, March 29 at 6pm ET / 3pm PT.
The collecting society that represents performers in Belgium has welcomed proposals by the country’s Council Of Ministers to introduce a new digital remuneration right for artists as part of the implementation of the 2019 European Copyright Directive.
Source: Belgian performer society welcomes proposed new digital remuneration right
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he bulk of the SMART Copyright Act proposes adding to the fifth chapter of Title 17 of the U.S. Code (entitled “Copyright Infringement and Remedies”) a system under which the Librarian of Congress, in coordination with the Register of Copyrights, would create and revise “designated technical measures” that apply to each “covered service provider,” or “a provider of online services or network access.”
Source: The SMART Copyright Act ‘Would Hold Tech Accountable,’ Senators Say
The rise of streaming on platforms such as Spotify and YouTube, combined with larger teams of writers behind hit songs, have led to a surge in high-profile copyright infringement cases in the past few years. Most recently, Ed Sheeran is locked in an ongoing legal battle over Shape of You, Spotify’s most streamed song ever.
Source: ‘Music is so different now’: Copyright laws need to change, says legal expert
Most art NFTs do not include an actual copy of the content, but instead merely point to a copy somewhere off-chain on the internet (e.g., on a server). For a content creator who discovers a counterfeit NFT of his or her art, this means that Notice-and-Takedown is mostly limited to targeting and removing that NFT’s marketplace listing.
Source: Will NFT Piracy Compel Changes To The Digital Millennium Copyright Act? – Technology – United States