But is the Cake a Lie? As many of you know, the trial court in Capitol Records v. ReDigi ruled over the weekend that ReDigi’s business model of re-selling digital music files infringed the copyright. Here’s the opinion. I’ve written about ReDigi...
The Planets Align for the Music Industry. Will it Be Enough? In our last post, we examined the overlapping music-licensing regimes to explain, in part, why it took Spotify two years to get licensed in the U.S. We also looked at the music industry’s unhappy history...
When “Unique” Doesn’t Mean “Special” (and Why that Actually Makes Sense) Last time, we looked at how venerable Pandora fits into the legal ecosystem of online music services. It’s a webcaster, which means that, if it plays its cards...
When “Unique” Doesn’t Mean “Special” (and Why that Actually Makes Sense) Last time, we looked at how venerable Pandora fits into the legal ecosystem of online music services. It’s a webcaster, which means that, if it plays its cards...
What We Did Learn (Sort of) from the MP3Tunes Decision In our last post, we looked at what the MP3Tunes decision didn’t tell us–that it didn’t put the music industry’s best argument to the test. We looked at the contours of this “nuclear option,” including the...
What We Did Learn (Sort of) from the MP3Tunes Decision In our last post, we looked at what the MP3Tunes decision didn’t tell us–that it didn’t put the music industry’s best argument to the test. We looked at the contours of this “nuclear option,” including the...
