Litigation
Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber sued for copyright infringement over ‘10,000 hours’

Collective Management Organisations
SoundExchange files a lawsuit against Slacker for failing to pay statutory royalties
Copyright & Regulation
US Department of Justice seizes six domain names; Brazil takes down 461 music streaming apps as part of Operation 404
Copyright & Regulation
British court sentences individual to four-and-a-half years imprisonment for selling and advertising unauthorised TV decoders
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Collective Management Organisations10 months ago
Cécile Rap-Veber and David El Sayegh appointed joint interim CEOs of French rights society SACEM; CEO Jean Noel Tronc ‘unavailable for personal reasons’
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Creative Industries2 months ago
Artist Rights Alliance has joined the Copyright Alliance as a new member
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Creative Industries2 months ago
BMG re-ups its top management in the US and gives a wider brief to Thomas Scherer in Los Angeles and Jon Loba in Nashville
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Litigation7 months ago
Appeals court rules that Sean Hall and Nathan Butler’s copyright infringement case against Taylor Swift can go to trial