By Emmanuel Legrand The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) has launched its new members's portal IPRS 2.0, designed by Dataclef, an affiliate of Canada's rights society...
By Emmanuel Legrand Two years ago, the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) determined after a lengthy process that mechanical royalties paid by digital streaming services to...
PRS for Music will change its governance rules following the approval by the rights society's AGM on August 18 of a series of proposals that will...
By Emmanuel Legrand After two years of consultation with stakeholders, Australia's government has unveiled the framework of the new copyright legislation that will introduce "changes to...
By Emmanuel Legrand A US District Court judge has lifted the so-called Paramount consent decrees that were preventing since 1948 Hollywood studios to own movie theater...
By Emmanuel Legrand In a joint letter to the chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Maria Pallante, president and CEO of the...
By Emmanuel Legrand China's music and entertainment company Tencent Music Entertainment Group has renewed its licensing deal with Universal Music Group. Tencent, which owns 10% of...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has launched the Data Quality Initiative (DQI), which will provide a streamlined way for music publishers, administrators...
By Emmanuel Legrand US labels' trade body the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has designated neighbouring rights society SoundExchange as the authoritative source of International...
By Emmanuel Legrand Usage of video on Facebook has experienced significant growth in 2019, with 279 million more videos uploaded than in 2018 (a 28% increase...
