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Intellectual Property In The Digital Streaming Age: How Music Becomes A Lawsuit, Alexandra Tasev
Intellectual Property In The Digital Streaming Age: How Music Becomes A Lawsuit, Alexandra Tasev
Honors College Theses
A mix of both entertainment business and law, the purpose of this review is to address the question of “are current copyright laws and procedures too restrictive of new and smaller-name artists from entering the market?” Through a law review and analysis of the history of copyright law, this thesis outlines the issues new, smaller music artists face as a result of rapid digital evolution paired with a slow-moving legal system. Failing to amend the current standards for dealing with old copyright cases will cause further issues with the growing popularity of digital platforms like YouTube, Soundcloud, Spotify, and TikTok. …
An Information-Gathering Approach To Copyright Policy, Peter Dicola, Matthew Sag
An Information-Gathering Approach To Copyright Policy, Peter Dicola, Matthew Sag
Faculty Articles
For over a century and with increasing frequency, major controversies have erupted between large distributors of copyrighted works (song publishers, movie studios, record labels, book publishers, etc.) and makers of new technologies for experiencing those works (player piano manufacturers, VCR manufacturers, the creators of file sharing software, Google Books, etc.). Usually, the copyright owners and the technology firms reach a licensing deal-but not without some form of government intervention. Various institutions within the federal government have become involved in these disputes, using a variety of different mechanisms. This Article is a theoretical investigation of government intervention in these content-technology copyright …