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PRS for Music launches consultation to reduce licence fees for amateur sports clubs

2 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

PRS for Music, an organisation which collects and pays royalties to its members for the exploitation of their musical works, has launched a consultation into the licence fees it charges amateur sports...

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Payment service provider warned to stop serving copyright infringing websites

9 November 2011 | Mark Weston

PhonepayPlus, the UK regulator of premium rate services, has announced that it will start to pass on details of pirated music websites to payment service providers as they are capable of enforcement. The...

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Confusion between Gaga and Goo Goo results in injunction – Ate My Heart v Mind Candy, High Court

14 October 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Ate My Heart has succeeded in obtaining a High Court injunction to stop Mind Candy from promoting a song on YouTube and iTunes featuring the fictional character Lady Goo Goo. Ate My Heart was the company...

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Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

26 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Performing Rights Society for Music has called on search engines to offer a traffic light service under which Internet users could see whether a music site they were going to was supporting legitimately...

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Company told to change its tune so ads wouldn’t suggest copying music onto different media without copyright owner’s permission

4 April 2011 | Mark Weston

3GA Ltd has been told to change its tune after its ads for its JB7 machine had been interpreted as suggesting that its products could be used for a way that infringed copyright. The JB7 machine was a CD...

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Long and winding road ends in result all Beatles fans wanted, as Beatles tracks finally available for download on iTunes

17 November 2010 | Paul Gershlick | 1 comment

After years of legal wrangling, The Beatles’ music is finally going to be available for download on iTunes. This follows the settlement of a trade mark disagreement between Apple Corps (which was set...

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Automatic reversion of copyright upon material breach acceptable – Crosstown v Rive Droite Music, Court of Appeal

17 November 2010 | Mark Weston

Two songwriters had assigned their copyright to RDM, which had in turn assigned its copyright to C. The assignment to RDM was of the copyright in the songs in the UK and only for 25 years, after which...

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Government proposes abolition of copyright exemptions for charities and not-for-profit organisations that want to play music…

3 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick

The Government has proposed the abolition of the current exemptions for charities and not-for-profit organisations that want to play music. Currently, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 have certain...

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Latest news and views tagged music

PRS for Music launches consultation to reduce licence fees for amateur sports clubs

Payment service provider warned to stop serving copyright infringing websites

Confusion between Gaga and Goo Goo results in injunction – Ate My Heart v Mind Candy, High Court

Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

Company told to change its tune so ads wouldn’t suggest copying music onto different media without copyright owner’s permission

Long and winding road ends in result all Beatles fans wanted, as Beatles tracks finally available for download on iTunes

Automatic reversion of copyright upon material breach acceptable – Crosstown v Rive Droite Music, Court of Appeal

Government proposes abolition of copyright exemptions for charities and not-for-profit organisations that want to play music…

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