Tag: safe harbour

The BPI has criticised Google – an opening sentence that could have been taken from a Music Ally story at pretty much any point in the last decade. In March 2016, though, the topic is a familiar complaint: Google's policy...

US music industry body the RIAA has published its figures for 2015, revealing that recorded-music revenues rose by 0.9% last year to $7bn. That’s estimated retail value: the amount of money people spent on physical music,...

YouTube has apologised to creators and promised to “strive to do better” with its system for complaints, including those concerning copyright. It has created a new team “dedicated to minimising mistakes and improving...

German collecting society GEMA’s battle with YouTube continues, but the latter has prevailed in the latest round. The Munich Regional Appeal Court reaffirmed that individual uploaders, rather than YouTube, are responsible...

Richard Gladstein is the producer of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film ‘Hateful Eight’. He’s also not the biggest fan of Google’s piracy policies. “Google and YouTube have the ability to create a vaccine that...

It’s not just Europe getting a review of whether safe-harbour legislation is fit for purpose in 2016. The US Copyright Office has launched its own consultation “to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the DMCA...

Rightsholders submitted more than 558m URLs to Google in 2015 for DMCA takedowns – up 60% year-on-year. That’s according to TorrentFreak, which crunched the public data from Google on DMCA requests to its search engine.

The boundaries of European safe-harbour legislation won’t be tested in court just yet, after SoundCloud reached a settlement with collecting society PRS for Music that ends the latter’s copyright-infringement lawsuit. The...

American ISP Cox Communications has lost its copyright-infringement battle with music publisher BMG, in a high-profile case that saw the telco denied the ability to use a safe-harbour defence. A Virginia federal jury awarded...

As rightsholders continue their pressure for legislators to rethink current safe-harbour rules, Google’s copyright counsel Cédric Manara has spoken publicly about what his company sees as the problems of any “take down,...

Just when you thought the relationship between YouTube and rightsholders was entering calmer waters, things start to get choppy again. Google has announced a pushback against “legally unsupported DMCA takedowns” on...

Never generalise about the technology and music industries being at loggerheads. Music Ally readers are thankfully well aware that it’s much more complex and nuanced than that. In 2015 there are plenty of ‘music people’...