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Spotify Tries to Deal With Artists, Managers Directly in Cost Saving Attempt
The music streaming platform has reportedly paid independent artists and managers advances to license their music directly to the platform, in a bid to cut back on its ballooning copyrights costs. In exchange, Spotify offers them...
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Spotify Goes Directly to Artists & Managers to Cut Costs
The music streaming platform has reportedly paid independent artists and managers advances to license their music directly to the platform in a bid to cut back on its ballooning copyrights costs. In exchange, Spotify offers them...
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European judges solve Rubik’s Cube legal puzzle
The Rubik’s Cube, a multicolored three-dimensional puzzle, that has been a fixture in children’s toy boxes for forty years. Invented in 1974 by Hungarian Erno Rubik, 350 million cubes have been sold worldwide. And the fiendishly...
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Raw Politics in full: Brexit plan B and copyright vote controversy
Plan B Brexit The European Commission warned today that a no-deal Brexit is “increasingly likely”. The Commission said a no-deal scenario would mean the immediate application of rules and tariffs at the UK border by the EU. New Silk Road...
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Raw Politics #ICYMI: Brexit chaos and controversial EU copyright vote
Host Tesa Arcilla takes a look back at the top highlights from this week’s coverage on Raw Politics. From the European Parliament narrowly supporting a controversial copyright reform to British MPs seizing control of the Brexit process,...
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No more copyright: Prepare your eyes for the Mickey Mouse horror film
Following last year's Winnie the Pooh slasher, Mickey is getting knife happy now that the early version of Disney's beloved mouse has entered the public domain.
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New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of the newspaper's articles without permission to help train artificial intelligence technologies.
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Authors shocked to find their books used to train AI without permission
Some of Canada's most famous authors were shocked to find that their books have been used without their permission to train artificial intelligence software. The Writers' Union of Canada says it is considering a lawsuit, but one law...
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Music Companies Sue Twitter for Copyright Violations
A group of musical publishers representing major artists is suing Twitter for copyright infringement for $250 million.
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Ed Sheeran did not rip off Marvin Gaye, court rules
A New York City court has ruled Thursday that Ed Sheeran's hit song Thinking Out Loud did not plagiarize Marvyn Gaye's 1970s classic Let's Get It On. Sheeran claimed vindication while other songwriters breathed a sigh of relief.
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"Steamboat Willie" Copyright Protection to Expire in 2024
Walt Disney's 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie" is entering the public domain in 2024 after its copyright protection expires.
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Facebook agrees to pay French media outlets for their content after months of copyright talks
The social media giant reached an agreement with some French dailies just weeks after signing an agreement with newspapers Le Monde and Le Figaro.
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Biden backs waiving vaccine patents
The Biden administration has joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, amid a debate over lifting intellectual property protections.
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Instagram Cracks Down on Copyright Infringement
Instagram will now require websites to seek user approval before embedding content on pages. The news comes as Newsweek faces a lawsuit for failing to get permission before embedding a user's post on its website.
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Baby shark in court: Legal tussle over hit children's song
US musician Johnny Only and his lawyers say the South Korean producers of Baby Shark plagiarised his song.
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Bongo Flava: How a Tanzanian music genre won global attention
Born from a fusion of hip-hop, Afrobeat, and Swahili storytelling, Bongo Flava has become a symbol of Tanzanian pride. Artists like Diamond Platnumz and Ali Kiba have turned it into a continental powerhouse, collaborating with icons from...
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Popeye and Tintin among Us copyrights entering the public domain now that 2025 has begun
Thousands of comics, books & artefacts have lost their copyright protection in the US.
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Proposed copyright changes could net Inuit artists more money
Visual artists could soon get royalties when their work is resold with new propsoed changes from the federal government. Inuit in particular could stand to benefit from that. Samuel Wat explains.
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Generative AI Is Fuelling A Copyright Crisis
The 1984 US Supreme court ruling in Sony Corp vs Universal City Studios was a victory for innovation. However, the ruling left many questions concerning how copyright law might evolve to accommodate new technologies unanswered. Now, a...
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Writers' guild pushes for more protections against AI
Bruce Smith, the president of the Writers Guild of Canada, says that artificial intelligence will never be able to replicate the specificity of creativity. He says the union will continue to push studios for more definitive language...
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Producer Giles Martin says Government must do more to ‘protect artists’ from AI
The Government must do more to “protect artists” from AI developers as a data Bill moves through parliament, award-winning producer Giles Martin has said. Creatives, industry leaders and politicians gathered in central London to call on...
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Creatives hold protest calling for government to restrict the use of content for developing AI
Creatives, industry leaders and politicians gathered in central London to call on the Government to scrap plans that would allow AI developers to use creative content without permission or payment. Interview with UK Music Chief Executive...
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Marvin Gaye, Ed Sheeran & the 'Blurred Lines' of Music Copyright
In this video, we explore how the copyright in a song the musical composition works. We look at what courts use to determine whether there was an infringement, and why these cases can be so complicated. Listen closely. Did Ed Sheeran...
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Carla Hayden: The Library of Congress Is Open to All
Carla Hayden is the first female and only the 14th Librarian of Congress in history since the Library of Congress was established in 1800. In an episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations," she talks about the...