Thanks to the Copyright Act of 1976 the recording industry has yet another battle to worry about . . . copyright termination. What do I mean by termination? Well, the Copyright Act includes sections 203 and 304, which are often called the “termination provisions.” These provisions allow authors to recapture their copyrights after a certain [...]

  Earlier this year one of the music industry’s powerhouse companies, Warner Music Group (“Warner”), began accepting bids for its recorded music and publishing companies. While Warner preferred bids for the business as a whole, there were numerous bidders who placed bids for one or the other. The bidders included Live Nation, Sony Music Entertainment, [...]

  As of 2007, the Copyright Royalty Board affirmed the U.S. Copyright Office’s previous designation of SoundExchange as the sole entity for subscribing statutory license fees. This designation can be found under Sections 112 and 114 of the Copyright Act. The role of SoundExchange, as a non-profit performance rights organization, is to collect and distribute [...]

  Warner Music Group, (“Warner”), one of the music industry’s most successful companies, recently hired Goldman Sachs to assist in its buyout strategy. Reports indicate that in the last week of February, Warner requested bids for its music publishing company, Warner/Chappell, as well as for the company as a whole. Many have speculated about the [...]