Music Technology Policy

JUNE 19, 2019

There is a company called LyricFind that licenses lyrics for many publishers according to their advertising. Wixen notes in the complaint: Pandora may claim that it had obtained licenses to display the lyrics to the Musical Compositions from one or more sources, including an entity called LyricFind, the self-proclaimed “largest lyric licensing service” in the world, which claims that it “has licensing from over 4,000 music publishers, including all majors.”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Jamie wrote in with an interesting question about music licensing in theatre… Hi, I am Gordon Firemark and this is asked and answered, where I take your entertainment law questions so you can get your career and business in entertainment to the next level. TRANSCRIPT: www.firemark.com.

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Gordon P. Firemark

DECEMBER 6, 2013

In this video, Entertainment Lawyer Gordon Firemark answers a question about licensing music on a shoestring. Is it wise to get a “Festival only license?” ” Or, should filmmakers get more comprehensive licenses. And, how the licensing request is made.

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Gordon P. Firemark

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Does a song have to be registered with the copyright office before you can obtain a license to use it in your film or other project? Clearing a piece of music simply involves tracking down the rightful owner or owners and getting the required permission in the form of a license.

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Gordon P. Firemark

APRIL 11, 2011

Composer and Music Licensing Agreements for Film, TV, & New Media. We’ll navigate typical composing and licensing agreements, shed light on strategies for negotiating the best possible deal, and highlight the most common pitfalls.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As we wrote here , at the FCC’s December meeting, the FCC was scheduled to adopt an order eliminating the requirement that broadcasters post a physical copy of their licenses and other instruments of authorization at their control points or transmitter sites. As a station’s licenses are now generally available online, the FCC stated that they saw no reason to require that they be posted at station locations not normally accessible to the public.

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Gordon P. Firemark

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In this video, Entertainment Lawyer Gordon Firemark answers a question about licensing film and video materials for online use. This question and answer brought to you by: Asked & Answered – How to license film and video clips?

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Gordon P. Firemark

MARCH 12, 2012

This Friday, I’ll be presenting a webinar on music rights and licensing in theatre, Admission is free, and space is limited to 50 attendees.

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Music Technology Policy

JUNE 14, 2014

Copyright Office is conducting a “ Music Licensing Study ” as part of the government’s overall review of the U.S. This post proposes allowing songwriters to “opt out” of the compulsory mechanical license required under Section 115 of the Copyright Act. One of the questions on the Copyright Office Roundtable Agenda is a discussion of successful licensing models. See Credit Check: Serial Bad Actors Should Lose Access to Compulsory Licenses.)

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New Media and Technology Law

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Licensors of software typically utilize software license agreements providing for their ownership of the licensed software and related IP, as well as restrictions barring licensees from reverse engineering the code at issue. The scope of protection, of course, depends on the final language of the licensing agreement and disputes can arise when licensees decide to develop similar software in-house, or with a third party.

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New Media and Technology Law

JUNE 11, 2019

2019), the Supreme Court resolved an area of ongoing concern for parties to trademark licenses. The court addressed a circuit split on whether a trademark licensee may continue to use a trademark for the term of the license, after the license has been rejected in bankruptcy. In Mission , the debtor-licensor rejected a trademark license agreement and sought to terminate the licensee’s right to use the debtor’s trademark. Contracts Licensing Trademark

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Music Technology Policy

MARCH 11, 2017

A funny but true short video from Crunch Digital that documents how app developers deal with music licensing! via @crunchdigital: “Got Licenses?” — Artist Rights Watch

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Media Law Prof Blog

AUGUST 16, 2017

Lake Isabella/Mount Pleasant, Michigan, radio station WRAX-FM has surrendered its license to operate to the FCC, before the agency held a scheduled hearing on whether the station's license should be renewed.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 30, 2019

The license renewal cycle, about which we have been warning broadcasters for at least the last year (see, for instance, our posts here , here and here ), is now upon us. June 3 is the filing deadline for license renewals for radio stations in Maryland, DC, Virginia and West Virginia. These stations should also be running their post – filing license renewal announcements on the 1 st and 16 th of June, July and August.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As we wrote here , at the FCC’s December meeting, the FCC was scheduled to adopt an order eliminating the requirement that broadcasters post a physical copy of their licenses and other instruments of authorization at their control points or transmitter sites. As a station’s licenses are now generally available online, the FCC stated that they saw no reason to require that they be posted at station locations not normally accessible to the public.

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Music Technology Policy

AUGUST 1, 2017

I dreamed up a startling new technique to attempt to divine whether the true purpose of the controversial Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act (or…”TIMLOA”?) Is it common in music licensing legislation to find such protections?

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

But, starting next month, there will be a whole new set of deadlines about which broadcasters need to be concerned, as April 1 is when the first pre-filing announcements for broadcast license renewals will begin , signaling the start of the 3-year long radio renewal cycle. The 3-year TV license renewal cycle will begin at the same time next year.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

With the June 3 filing deadline fast approaching for license renewals for radio stations in Maryland, DC, Virginia and West Virginia , stations (including FM translators and LPFMs) licensed to any community in any of those states should be beginning to prepare their applications. These stations should also be running their pre-filing license renewal announcements on the 1 st and 16 th of May.

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Music Technology Policy

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The fact is, if there wasn’t low transaction cost collective licensing like SoundExchange, someone would have invented it because of its inherent logic. It’s also one reason why we have form contracts for repetitive transactions and collective licensing for large numbers of property owners wishing to all make the same deal at the same time. One significant purpose of collective licensing in the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

As we have written before, the next license renewal cycle begins on June 1, 2019 , with radio stations in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia submitting their applications. Earlier this month, I conducted a webinar for several state broadcast associations to help stations in those states start to look at their operations to avoid issues that might otherwise come up in with their license renewals.

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Music Technology Policy

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

As best we can tell from the outside looking in, this chart has the dates for key events in the critical path to launch for the Mechanical Licensing Collective as required by the Music Modernization Act. ” Recall that the Register of Copyrights gets to pick the entity to operate as the Mechanical Licensing Collective. So who’s behind the American Music Licensing Collective, exactly? The countdown to the License Availability Date: 770 days from now.

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Music Technology Policy

DECEMBER 11, 2017

All songs may be licensed under either ASCAP or BMI’s blanket licenses. All songs may be licensed under both SESAC and GMR’s blanket licenses. Obtain synchronization licenses from each party for their respective shares, as is current custom and practice. All songs may be licensed under either ASCAP or BMI’s blanket licenses. Obtain synchronization licenses from each party for their respective shares, as is current custom and practice.

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Music Technology Policy

JANUARY 29, 2018

Sensenbrenner introduced the Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act last year, we roundly criticized the bill as an 11th Century solution to a 21st Century problem, the Domesday Book meets a unicorn. With all the talk about the controversial Music Modernization Act, one would have thought that a pre-condition of introducing the bill is that the Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act would have been withdrawn.

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Music Technology Policy

JULY 5, 2016

cases frequently cited for this principle all involve voluntary licenses by one of the co-owners. None involved the heavy hand of the government forcing one of the co-writers to license over any other co-writer’s own objections. But don’t call it voluntary licenses.

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Music Technology Policy

JULY 12, 2016

You probably didn’t know that the Obama Department of Justice has been conducting invitation only conference calls with songwriters about the DOJ’s proposed 100% licensing regime they’d like to impose by means of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

BMI scores a legal win over the Justice Department. read more. THR, Esq. Business Music Business THR Online

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Media Law Prof Blog

JULY 22, 2014

It has been proposed that difficulties in negotiating cross-licenses John Howells, University of Aarhus, and Ron D. Katznelson, Bi-Level Technologies, have published The Coordination of Independently-Owned Vacuum Tube Patents in the Early Radio Alleged Patent ''Thicket''. Here is the abstract.

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DealFatigue

JANUARY 12, 2009

Tags: traditional media caddyshack the simpsons Streaming self distribution leverage merchandise jason steele shorts charlie the unicorn Internet Licensing filmcow.com retail merchandise hot topic charlie the unicorn 2 UGC barriers to entry Rights animation music business youtube ancillary exploitation eyeballs Distribution flash animation content creator

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Digital Media Law

JUNE 18, 2014

If they manage to get self-driving cars on the market by 2020 – as they’ve said they hope to – then I’d give human drivers another ten years before we all get our licenses pulled and registrations revoked. But my point is that the definition of “safely enough” will shift: when self-driving cars are safer than human drivers, at some point none of us humans will be deemed safe enough to worthy of a license. I think the government will get them, and your license too.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

The FCC yesterday released two public notices about the procedures to be used in the upcoming radio license renewal cycle. As we wrote here and here , the license renewal cycle begins with the filing of license renewal applications by stations in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia that must be submitted by June 3 (as the June 1 deadline falls on a weekend, the deadline is extended to the next business day).

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Music Technology Policy

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

MTP Podcasts 100% Licensing DOJ Appeal Maria Pallante

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Music Technology Policy

JULY 27, 2017

Sensenbrenner introduced a bill entitled “ The Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act “, a piece of work that is Dickensian in its cruelty, bringing a whole new meaning to either “ newspeak ” or “draconian,” take your pick.

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Music Technology Policy

JULY 1, 2016

In case you’re trying to figure out what in the world the Department of Justice is thinking with its recent ruling on 100% licensing for PROs, maybe a page of history is worth a volume of logic. Letter to Renata B. Hesse from MIC Coalition.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This week, the Radio Music License Committee issued a press release that states that Global Music Rights (“GMR”), the new performing rights organization that collects royalties for the public performance of songs written by a number of popular songwriters (including Bruce Springsteen, members of the Eagles, Pharrell Williams and others) has agreed to extend their interim license for the performance of their music by commercial radio stations until September 30, 2019.

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Media Law Prof Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Lemley, Stanford Law School, has published Intellectual Property and Shrinkwrap Licenses. Mark A. Here is the abstract. Intellectual property -- right, wrong, or indifferent -- is well on its way to becoming irrelevant in the computer world. The reason is

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A magistrate judge potentially deals a blow to some 10,000 radio stations fighting licensing demands over songs by Bruce Springsteen, Prince, and Bruno Mars, among other superstars. read more. THR, Esq. Business Music Business THR Online

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DealFatigue

JANUARY 12, 2009

Distribution Internet Licensing Notable Rights Streaming UGC ancillary exploitation animation barriers to entry caddyshack charlie the unicorn charlie the unicorn 2 content creator eyeballs filmcow.com flash animation hot topic jason steele leverage merchandise music business retail merchandise self distribution shorts the simpsons traditional media youtubeMy kids turned me on to “Charlie The Unicorn” shortly after it made its debut on youtube several years ago.

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DealFatigue

JANUARY 12, 2009

Distribution Internet Licensing Notable Rights Streaming UGC ancillary exploitation animation barriers to entry caddyshack charlie the unicorn charlie the unicorn 2 content creator eyeballs filmcow.com flash animation hot topic jason steele leverage merchandise music business retail merchandise self distribution shorts the simpsons traditional media youtube My kids turned me on to “Charlie The Unicorn” shortly after it made its debut on youtube several years ago.

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Music Technology Policy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The “Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act” claims to make things easier for coffee shops, bars and restaurants who want to license music to play in their establishments. podcast the future of what kill rock stars transparency in music licensing and ownership music industry music business congress bill legislation future of music coalition.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The dispute centers on special edition New Era baseball caps. read more. THR, Esq. Style Style THR Online Jay Z

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

With the new ruling, fractional licensing is allowed under the consent decree the performing-rights organization operates under. read more. THR, Esq. The Business Music Business Billboard

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Music Technology Policy

DECEMBER 27, 2016

So it is with Global Music Rights and the goliath Radio Music License Committee that itself is a member of the even bigger goliath MIC Coalition. (My 31 to sign an interim license agreement with GMR, which will cover them for playing the PROs songs through Sept. The MIC Coalition.

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Music Technology Policy

JUNE 6, 2013

We’ve referred a couple of times to the “DMCA license” a detestable phrase that I heard around the SXSW tech panels used as though it actually meant something. Corey Field went to the trouble of actually explaining why there is no such thing as a DMCA license without the serving of bile that accompanied my own. See “ The DMCA License

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