“Let’s get crazy” with DMCA takedown notices
On February 7, 2007, a young Pennsylvania woman named Stephanie Lenz uploaded to YouTube a video of her two adorable children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” She titled the 29-second long video “Let’s Get Crazy #1,” and then (probably) went about the rest of her day.
September 22, 2015
European Artists’ Rights Org Goes After SoundCloud for Copyright Abuse
Previously on this blog, we wrote about the current battles between the copyright holders of recorded works (you know these works as “music”) and certain scofflaw streaming services that seem to operate based on a policy of denying artists any share in the profit created from streaming their music.
September 08, 2015
Pixels Movie DMCA Takedown Leaves Trail of Innocent Videos in Its Wake
Pixels is a new Adam Sandler “movie” that you almost certainly should not see. (Sample review snippet: “Pixels, it is clear even from afar, is the sort of vanity project that represents everything that is wrong with Hollywood.”)
August 25, 2015
Who Owns – and Who Can Profit From – The Copyrights to Your Instagrams?
It’s a complicated question.
August 18, 2015
Soundexchange and the Ongoing, Hard-fought Battle to Pay Performers for Their Master Royalties
Let’s acknowledge this right off the top: we live in an age where a large contingent of the population has internalized the idea that music, songs, albums, etc., are fully “free.” Nobody likes to side with, say, the RIAA, while they’re filing lawsuits against 12 year olds with Limewire (or its more current equivalent).
July 22, 2015
Advocates for the Creative Mind
