Why Grooveshark Might Not Swim into the DMCA Safe Harbor In our last blog post, we examined two of the four main requirements for Grooveshark’s DMCA safe-harbor defense. Those requirements were (1) having and implementing a repeat-infringer policy, and (2) compliance...
Why Grooveshark Might Not Swim into the DMCA Safe Harbor In our last blog post, we examined two of the four main requirements for Grooveshark’s DMCA safe-harbor defense. Those requirements were (1) having and implementing a repeat-infringer policy, and (2) compliance...
Is Grooveshark Just the YouTube of Music? Although Grooveshark has been sued now three times, it has not yet had to explain why it thinks its activities are legal. After all, as we explained in our last two posts, its activities are infringing–but surely...
Is Grooveshark Just the YouTube of Music? Although Grooveshark has been sued now three times, it has not yet had to explain why it thinks its activities are legal. After all, as we explained in our last two posts, its activities are infringing–but surely...
Publicity Rights, Indemnification and the Coolest Album Cover in Recent Memory In this post-album world, where we usually buy our music song by song, the album cover is something of a lost art. In 2009, Vampire Weekend infused some life into that art by building an...