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Federal judge rules in favour of two distinct rate proceedings for ASCAP and BMI

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Federal judge John Cronan, from the US District Court in the Southern District of New York, has ruled that there should be two separate rate-setting proceedings for the period 2022-2026 applied to rights societies ASCAP and BMI. 

The decision was a blow to efforts made by the Radio Music License Committee (RLMC), which negotiates rates for the use of music on behalf of commercial radio stations, to combine the rate setting for both societies under one single proceeding. Already in May, Distr...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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Authors Guild and 17 authors file copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI

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The Authors Guild and 17 authors — including the Guild's President Maya Shanbhag Lang, 'Games of Thrones' writer George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Connelly, and Jodi Picoult — filed a class-action suit on behalf of a class of fiction writers against OpenAI, the parent company of AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York for copyright infringement.

The authors claim that their works of fiction have been used to train GPT with proper...

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‘Let’s Get It On’ co-writer Ed Townsend withdraws case against Ed Sheeran

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September 24, 2023

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The heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote with Marvin Gaye the song 'Let's Get It On', have withdrawn their appeal in the case against Ed Sheeran and his song 'Thinking Out Loud'.

A US court found earlier this year that Sheeran and his co-writer, Amy Wadge, did not infringe on Gaye's song. The heirs to Townsend initially filed filing a notice of appeal Thursday with a federal court in New York in June.

However, in a new twist, Plaintiffs have decided to drop the appeal with prejudice,...

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Judge finds Texas’ Reader Act violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment

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September 24, 2023

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Three weeks after a US District Court granted a preliminary injunction that prevented the implementation by the State of Texas of the Reader Act, formerly known as House Bill 900, Judge Alan D Albright of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas outlined in a 59-page opinion the reasons why the law "violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment."

The Reader Act, which was due to be implemented on September 1, 2023, would require independent bookstores, nati...

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