Earlier this year, Grooveshark and parent company Escape Media Group (“Escape”) filed a subpoena in Los Angeles Superior Court against Digital Music News (“DMN”).  The subpoena compelled the disclosure of an anonymous commenter’s identity.  This petition could have “chilling effects” on the rights and obligations of Internet bloggers.  An unfavorable ruling on DMN’s appeal would impose [...]

  We’ve been able to pay to digitally download sound recordings through legitimate services for over a decade now, and these services have grown pretty rapidly in terms of both scale and profitability. So much so, that iTunes (so far the most successful of the digital distribution platforms) has sold more than 10 billion songs [...]

  Tuesday, January 31st, may have marked Edgar Bronfman’s final day as chairman of Warner Music Group, but that didn’t stop him from making one more promise regarding the label’s future plans on his way out.  In an interview with Peter Kafka at the “D: Dive into Media Conference,” Bronfman had some choice words regarding [...]

In a world where Newt Gingrich is being sued for copyright infringement by the composers of “Eye of the Tiger”, lays the hopes and dreams of Indie music labels.  These labels have been making gains in pursuing their goals; the start of which was their “Manifesto” produced on January 29th. January 28-31, 2012 marked this [...]