http://feed.informer.com/widgets/IQFGY1UCDG Music Business Times Legal News Respective post owners and feed distributors Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:28:41 +0000 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/16/us-usa-crime-tennessee-idUSKCN0I502920141016 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:899d96fa-8d9f-7de6-3706-3ab4cba2fbf4 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:40:44 +0000 John Brown, one of the two men convicted in the murders of Grand Ole Opry and "Hee Haw" star David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, will be released from prison after serving 41 years, officials said on Wednesday. Brown, 64, who had been denied parole five times in the past, will be released in four to six weeks after four of the five Tennessee Board of Parole members voted to parole. Brown was sentenced to two consecutive 99-year sentences for the murders along with his cousin Doug Brown, who later died in prison. http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/grooveshark-responds-to-ruling-in-universal-litigation/ Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:c9256a20-2035-d851-2a20-f0fd88408567 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:54:29 +0000 Grooveshark indicated it was considering an appeal as soon as last week’s ruling was announced and it has now seemingly confirmed that an appeal is underway. Meanwhile the digital firm claims that the ruling sets no precedent that hinders its current operations, arguing that the actions at the heart of Universal’s lawsuit relate to a business model that the company parked in 2008. Whether or not Universal would agree with that, it is true that the ruling does not contradict Grooveshark’s central argument that its core user-upload-based streaming service is protected by the DMCA. http://www.examiner.com/article/monkees-song-at-center-of-royalties-lawsuit-mono-vinyl-box-out-tuesday Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:4da3fb8a-c283-8f15-5103-ffc064151045 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:24:35 +0000 The Monkees' 1967 No. 1 hit “Daydream Believer,” composed by John Stewart, is the focus of a lawsuit filed by his widow against EMI Music Publishing for missing payments of royalties on foreign records sales. Stewart died of a brain aneurysm in 2008. The suit says that Stewart had signed an agreement with Screen Gems-Columbia Music in 1967 to get 50% of the publisher's earnings overseas. It alleges that Stewart is owed at least $450,000 because of “accounting slight of hand.” EMI later acquired Screen Gems-Columbia. https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/music-industry-piles-on-pandora-files-new-class-action-on-heels-of-siriusxm-victory/?utm_source=GeneralUsers&utm_campaign=f805933dfc-c:mdad:10-05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1dd83065c6-f805933dfc-99126377 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:4c28bc03-5612-b76b-9835-0679502c91ae Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:11:57 +0000 It’s gold rush time out there for music industry lawyers, who racked up a major court victory recently against SiriusXM, and have now doubled down with a similar lawsuit against digital radio service Pandora. The latest legal action came as the 1960’s duo Flo and Eddie — who performed hits like “It Ain’t Me Babe” with The Turtles — filed a fresh class action complaint in Los Angeles federal court, demanding that Pandora should pay more for playing pre-1972 sound recordings. The legal details are mind-numbing but, broadly stated, the cases turn on a novel legal theory based on state copyright laws — laws that, in the view of many people, were superseded by 1972 updates to the federal Copyright Act. http://rainnews.com/grooveshark-shares-upbeat-defiant-response-to-copyright-ruling/ Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:7ae226b2-8982-b026-826b-036c71604d5a Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:41:52 +0000 Grooveshark received some damning news from a New York district court judge yesterday, but it is still trying to swim on. Today the streaming and uploading service shared a blog post with a response to the ruling. “This latest news dealt specifically with an early version of Grooveshark which we dispensed of in 2008 in favor of our current music streaming service,” the company said. “Grooveshark’s service has already provided millions of dollars in revenue to artists and labels all over the world, https://gigaom.com/2014/09/30/victory-against-grooveshark-shows-music-industry-has-upper-hand-on-sharing-sites/?utm_source=GeneralUsers&utm_campaign=2585f1d637-c:mdad:10-01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1dd83065c6-2585f1d637-99126377 Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:f8a8ab5d-5ce2-980f-8cb3-deb361c66571 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:39:35 +0000 The music industry has been waging a bitter campaign against song-sharing sites for years and now, for better or worse, the industry is clearly winning. The latest evidence of this came Monday when a New York court ruled that the executives behind Grooveshark, a user-driven streaming site, had violated copyright and destroyed evidence. U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa found that Grooveshark’s founders had ordered employees to upload thousands of unlicensed songs in order to burnish the site’s popularity. http://rainnews.com/soundcloud-conundrum-intersection-copyright-holders-revenue-sharing-user-generated-content/ Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:a0ae7748-fcdb-1035-7959-13a29ebecb0a Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:32:09 +0000 SoundCloud’s kettle boiled over this summer when major labels (“the majors”) started to enforce their intellectual property rights upsetting the service’s large community of Producers and DJs. After seven years of maintaining the same service, SoundCloud took drastic steps to change its design, and more importantly, its functionality. Many of the functionality changes likely occurred from the growing concern over potentially copyright-infringing works that inhabit the platform. Although SoundCloud has remedied the situation temporarily to satisfy the smaller artists, it could run into further problems down the road. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775216/Music-executive-stole-650-000-record-label-giant-artists-include-U2-Jennifer-Lopez-jailed-three-years.html Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:aaa933b8-dc84-2659-8736-fe44bdf0dfc3 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 06:08:58 +0000 A music executive who admitted to stealing almost $1.059 million from record label giant Universal Music Group - whose artists include U2 and Prince - was today jailed for three years. Duncan Schwier, the company's former head of global production, swindled the world's largest musical corporation with false invoices for more than a decade. The 52-year-old claimed that he had given most of the money to his colleagues and to charity after a series of medical conditions left him behaving erratically. http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6266743/glen-campbell-sued-over-upcoming-ill-be-me Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:bdef5d40-8cb2-071e-28dd-3c60b61672a7 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:40:46 +0000 Glen Campbell battled Alzheimer's Disease throughout the tour filmed in the upcoming documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me. Now he's facing a legal battle over its production and his relationship with director-producer James Keach. The Record Company is a production house claiming the film violates an agreement it made in June 2011 to develop a project about the country music icon with him and Keach, whose credits include producing the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. In a complaint filed against Campbell on Monday, the studio alleges it was "excluded from participating in the documentary in every way" despite its "exclusive" agreement with Campbell. http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/thom-yorke-solo-album-tomorrows-modern-boxes-downloaded-400000-times-over-weekend-1201316230/ Delicious/mbtimes/lticker urn:uuid:c7ae0f33-00f9-0b7b-1157-5bf10424524c Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:30:06 +0000 Downloads of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s first solo album in eight years, “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes,” topped 400,000 in the first three days of he surprised fans with its release on the BitTorrent file-sharing network. Album downloads had hit about 408,000 as of 10 a.m. Eastern on Monday, according to BitTorrent. It became available Friday at 11 a.m. ET. Yorke’s release took advantage of the BitTorrent Bundle feature, and it is the first time users can pay to “unlock” content distributed via the peer-to-peer software. While BitTorrent recorded the total number of downloads, however, it is not disclosing how many of those users actually paid the $6 fee to unlock the eight tracks (with a rep explaining that this info belongs to the publisher of the bundle, and that Yorke is not releasing that).