Members of the European Parliament and independent music companies' Brussels-based organisation IMPALA have called on the European Commission to come forward with a legislative fix regarding the 'RAAP' ruling on the fifth anniversary of the European Court of Justice's decision.
The court held that neighbouring rights (NR) societies in the EU could not discriminate against rights holders based on their origin, even though their country has no proper NR legislation in place. This decision was pred...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to terminate Shira Perlmutter's position as Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office last May.
The ruling thus reinstates Perlmutter at the Copyright Office, pending a possible referral of the case to the Supreme Court. 
"ORDERED that the motion for injunction be granted to the extent that appellees Todd Blanche, Paul Perki...

Recent decisions by courts and regulatorss on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean proved costly for Google parent Alphabet, but the outcome could have been a lot worse. 
First, in a mixed ruling, a US District Court found that Alphabet's division Google, the group's biggest money maker, will have to share online data with competitors but, on the bright side, will not have to divest from its search engine Chrome. 
Then, a federal court in San Francisco determined that Google...