The US music sector has applauded the introduction of the bipartisan legislation Help Independent Tracks Succeed Act (HITS Act) by Representatives Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and Ron...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that displaying links to copyrighted material required the permission from rights holders...
By Emmanuel Legrand Organisations representing the music and entertainment industries have welcomed the passing by Congress of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Biden...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Re:Create Coalition, which advocates for "a balanced copyright system" and claims to be supporting "a pro-innovation, pro-creator, and pro-consumer copyright agenda," has...
The Copyright Alliance aims to be "the unified voice of the copyright community," from creators to businesses that rely on copyright to exist. In the past...
India's courts have been sending mixed messages to lyricists, composers and music publishers about their rights to earn royalties when their music is played by the...
By Emmanuel Legrand Australia's Parliament has passed a law that will establish the News Media Bargaining Code requiring online platforms to remunerate news publishers for the...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Canadian government has opened a public consultation related to the implementation of the extension of the general term of copyright protection "to...
By Emmanuel Legrand The CreativeFuture coalition, representing more than 560 companies in the creative sector (film, television, music, publishing, photography, and other core copyright industries), has...
By Emmanuel Legrand Officials from the European Commission's DG Connect have met virtually with EU lawmakers after they voiced in a letter their concern about the...