Solomon Linda, who improvised some of the tune in the studio, was paid for 10 shillings for the recording, so did not profit when it became a local hit in the 1940s. Then the track took on a life of its own when it was adapted by the US folk group The Weavers in 1951.
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EU Study Proposes New ‘Anti-Piracy Act’ to Effectively Tackle Online Piracy
A recent study published through the European Parliamentary Research Service suggests that a new ‘EU Anti-Piracy Act’ is the most effective way to tackle online piracy of sports events and other premium content. This new legislation should harmonize anti-piracy policies and tools across EU member states, providing strong enforcement options including site-blocking.
Source: EU Study Proposes New ‘Anti-Piracy Act’ to Effectively Tackle Online Piracy * TorrentFreak
Sci-Hub & Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After Publishers File High Court Complaint
A legal campaign by academic and scientific publishers to prevent Internet users from accessing Sci-Hub and Libgen has expanded to India. In a complaint filed at the High Court in Delhi, Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society, are demanding that local ISPs should block the sites to prevent copyright infringement.
Sen. Thom Tillis Proposes ‘Notice and Stay Down’ Rewrite of Online Copyright Law
Sen. Thom Tillis on Tuesday unveiled an overhaul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is intended to make it easier to stamp out pirated content online. The bill seeks to revamp the current “notice and takedown” system — whereby copyright owners submit infringement notices to online service providers — with a “notice and stay down” provision.
Source: Sen. Thom Tillis Proposes ‘Notice and Stay Down’ Rewrite of Online Copyright Law
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload ‘Pirate’ Movies & File DMCA Notices
YouTube says it has found a “smoking gun” to prove that a class-action lawsuit filed by Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Pirate Monitor Ltd was filed in bad faith. According to the Google-owned platform, the same IP address used to upload ‘pirate’ movies to the platform also sent DMCA notices targeting the same batch of content.
This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs
Whole swaths of the music business, like touring, shut down in 2020, but music publishing has had a stunning bull market. The action has all been in catalogs: bundles of songwriting copyrights that, if popular and long-lasting enough, can collect steady, predictable streams of income.
Source: This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs
Record Labels Reap Billion-Dollar Bonanza From Tunes on Social Media
After years of railing against technology giants for exploiting music to attract customers, record companies have embraced social media as their new cash machine. In the latest example, Warner Music Group Corp. has signed a deal with TikTok that will boost its fees for song rights and increase collaboration with the popular social-media app.
Source: Record Labels Reap Billion-Dollar Bonanza From Tunes on Social Media
“Freedom to Share” Launches EU Citizens’ Initiative to Legalize File-Sharing
A new European Citizen Initiative titled “Freedom to Share” aims to legalize file-sharing. The group, which is backed by Wikimedia Italy as well as Pirate parties in several countries, plans to gather a million signatures at which point the EU is obliged to organize a public hearing to seriously consider the proposal. This could theoretically lead to new legislation.
Source: “Freedom to Share” Launches EU Citizens’ Initiative to Legalize File-Sharing * TorrentFreak
Bob Dylan’s Next Big Deals: What’s Still in Play After Landmark Publishing Sale
After selling his publishing catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group, Bob Dylan could also be looking at a sale of his master recordings in the near future. Dylan owns all of his master recordings, sources with knowledge of his deals tell Billboard.
Source: Bob Dylan’s Next Big Deals: What’s Still in Play After Landmark Publishing Sale
Bob Dylan’s ‘Incredibly Unusual’ Decision That Let Him Own All His Songs
When Bob Dylan sold his publishing catalog to Universal Music Group, both fans and industry executives were most curious about the price. Others had another question: How did Dylan manage to get ownership of so much of his song catalog, which was almost all his by 1990?
Source: Bob Dylan’s ‘Incredibly Unusual’ Decision That Let Him Own All His Songs