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...
Why Grooveshark Probably Needs a Defense or a License In our last post, we looked at the case against the “feeding end” of the Grooveshark, which meant we mostly discussed secondary copyright liability. We’ll now turn our attention to Grooveshark’s “streaming end.”...
Through the Grooveshark’s Jaws In my last two posts, we took an overview of copyright law as it applies to online music services, and at six of the major new such services. We’ll now turn our focus to the specific services, starting with the inspiration for...
Accidental Infringement in the Real World Wasn’t I just blogging about how easy it is to accidentally infringe copyright with computers? Well, reality TV shows and news-shows have the same problem because they record sound and images (which is making a copy) in...
Seven Different Ways to Get Your Recommended Daily Requirement of Music This is the third installment of our series on the legal aspects of online digital music services. We turn now to the services themselves: here are thumbnail sketches of the six major new online...
Aspatore Press, an imprint of Thomson/Reuters, has published Understanding Developments in Cyberspace Law: Leading Lawyers Examining Privacy Issues, Addressing Security Concerns, and Responding to Recent IT Trends(whew!), part of Aspatore’s Inside the Minds...
