This article explains how copyright law and content moderation undermine the incentive for mashup producers to create mashup expressions.
News and Research articles on Music
The District Court of Munich ruled on February 25 that YouTube cannot blame German royalty collecting society GEMA for content blocked on its platform.
The system of national collecting societies provided a relatively stable framework for licensing musical works – until the internet changed the field of music distribution. The GEMA-Youtube case serves as a starting point to discuss the future of collective copyright management.
Russian internet industry and civil society groups bite back at newest law designed to protect corporations holding rights to audiovisual material.