By Emmanuel Legrand Canada, Mexico and the United States' copyright regimes are moving towards a more unified framework following the decision by the three parties to...
By Emmanuel Legrand Boomplay, one of the leading music streaming platforms in Africa, and Merlin, the global digital rights agency for the independent label sector, have...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Pan African Licensing Hub, set up by several African collective management organisations to license their joint repertoire to digital platforms, has been...
By Emmanuel Legrand Creating from scratch a collective management organisation is "a huge undertaking." This is how Alisa Coleman described the task ahead of the music...
By Emmanuel Legrand The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)'s opposition to the re-authorisation of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), could create a blackout...
By Emmanuel Legrand In what represents a major shift in strategy, Germany's performance rights organisation GEMA has acquired a majority stake in Berlin-based digital distribution and...
By Emmanuel Legrand Five US policy-makers - Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Representatives Ben Cline (R-Va.), Theodore Deutch (D-Fla.), Martha Roby (R-Ala.) and Harley Rouda (D-Calif.)...
By Emmanuel Legrand The US Department of Justice has stepped into the conflict between Global Music Rights (GMR), the music licensing and rights management firm set...
By Emmanuel Legrand The UK's PRS for Music and US performance rights society Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) have renewed their international reciprocal agreement which provides songwriters,...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), created by the Music Modernisation Act (MMA) to license and administer mechanical rights, has picked technology company ConsenSys...