By Emmanuel Legrand The US Copyright Office (USCO) has designated on July 5 the two entities that will operate the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) and the...
by Emmanuel Legrand SGAE's crisis reached a tipping point after the struggling Spanish rights society's general assembly failed to endorse on June 24 the proposed changes...
By Emmanuel Legrand The US Register of Copyright Karyn Temple has strongly endorsed the the possibility of a small claims tribunal within the Copyright Office (USCO)...
By Emmanuel Legrand Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have introduced in the US Senate the Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broader...
Robert Ashcroft After ten years as CEO of PRS for Music, Robert Ashcroft has left British authors' society to be replaced by Andrea Martin. During his...
By Emmanuel Legrand The US music community is preparing for a long battle ahead following the decision by the Antitrust Division at the US Department of...
By Emmanuel Legrand SGAE has been given a year to clean up its act by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. CISAC has...
By Emmanuel Legrand Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo addressingthe 2019 CISAC General Assembly in Tokyo. Photo (C): JASRAC Fair remuneration from digital services, better protection for...
By Emmanuel Legrand The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage at Canada's House of Commons has made a series of wide recommendations that would address some of...
Israel-based rights administration company Revelator is launching what it claims to be "the music industry's first Artist Wallet," which consists in a mobile copyright application powered...