US music rights society SoundExchange has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against digital media company Slacker, Inc. and its parent company LiveOne, Inc. "to recover unpaid royalties owed to performers and rights owners."

SoundExchange said Slacker operates under the statutory license for the use of sound recordings on digital radio but the service stopped paying statutory royalties in 2017.

"SoundExchange has been in negotiations wi...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has seized six domain names of websites "used to distribute copyrighted material without the authorization of the copyright holders."

According to the DoJ, law enforcement investigation from the Eastern District of Virginia confirmed that copyright-protected music content was "present and available" for streaming or downloading on each of these six websites.

The crackdown was part of ongoing efforts by the DoJ and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) t...

The Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, England has sentenced Michael Hornung to four years and six months imprisonment following conviction by a jury for selling and advertising unauthorised decoders.

Hornung was found to have operated his illegal business for over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017. The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) alongside the Greater Manchester Police investigated in 2014 the activities of an online supplier of television set-top boxes which e...