Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

United States government in violation of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.^3204 To cure the violation of the Appointm ...

On Oct. 31, 2014, the CRB, after a de novo review of its previous setting of the minimum annual fee for noncommercial webcasters ...

May of 2003, the Digital Media Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the American Federation of ...

parties to participate.^3223 Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. (“Sirius”), XM, MTV Networks (“MTV”), and SoundExchange, Inc petitione ...

including a minimum fee for the Section 112 license.^3229 Soon after, in SoundExchange, Inc. v. Librarian of Congress,^3230 the ...

In response to the Register of Copyrights’ Feb. 19 2009 decision requiring that Section 112 and 114 royalties be disaggregated, ...

function on the services operates only forward and users “can never know which song they are ‘skipping forward to’”; and “[i]n a ...

whether a particular activity is “interactive” must be determined on a case by case basis upon a full evidentiary record.^3244 ( ...

diminishing music sales. The Second Circuit therefore concluded that the touchstone of an interactive service is whether it is g ...

were included in the playlist selection process. When the user rated a particular song, LAUNCHcast then implicitly rated all oth ...

reproduction of the sound recording or the musical work embodied therein is made from the inception of the transmission through ...

Whether the interim copies generated in the course of streaming or limited downloads constitute a fair use or instead require a ...

Thus the Defendants’ server copies of the copyrighted works are not analogous to master recordings made in the course of the pro ...

The report concluded that the making of temporary copies of a work in RAM in the course of streaming implicates the reproduction ...

On Mar. 9, 2001, prior to issuance of the 2001 DMCA report, and in response to a petition by the RIAA for rulemaking or to conve ...

copies necessary to transmit On-Demand Streams and Limited Downloads; and (3) the royalty rate applicable to On-Demand Streams ( ...

addition, NMPA and HFA publicly announced that it is their policy to license not only RIAA members but also other digital music ...

(d) The Interactive Streaming and Limited Download Agreement of 2008 On Jan. 7, 2008, DiMA requested pursuant to Section 802(f)( ...

although the Register’s decision is binding as precedent only on subsequent proceedings, the CRB chose to exercise its ability t ...

period of more than transitory duration.”^3297 Although the Regulation noted that some, if not many, such buffer copies constitu ...