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Since 2020, Donald J. Trump and his campaign organization have regularly played the Sam & Dave classic “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at campaign...

Plaintiff Brian White is a professional musician who writes and records beat tracks that he sometimes licenses to other artists. (We Got...

Bill Graham was one of the great concert promoters of the twentieth century. During a career that spanned from the late 1960s until his...

Be honest. Were you as puzzled as I the first time you (mis)heard Taylor Swift, in "Blank Space," singing about “all the lonely Starbucks...

Lawyers often tell clients: put it in writing. A corollary, which often goes unsaid (but perhaps shouldn't), is: save a copy. This case...

On January 1, 2022, all literary works, compositions, and films first published in 1926, and all pre-1923 sound recordings, will enter...

In an unpublished, summary decision, a panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s determination that the composition You Raise...

WARNING:  A certain five-letter word that rhymes with the word "snitch" - one that many (my mother included) consider to be a four-letter...

Cain and Abel. Romulus and Remus. Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Mary I. Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. J.R. and Bobby Ewing. Liam...

Fish Sticks n' Tater Tots. A typical lunch during Lent in a Catholic grammar school. Also the title of a children's song written by the...

First there was Led Zeppelin. A few weeks later, Katy Perry. And now Josh Groban. All music copyright cases, all from courts in the Ninth...

In 2016, Christian rapper Marcus Gray (p.k.a FLAME) and his co-authors filed a lawsuit alleging that the song "Dark Horse" written by...

Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin - a case about the opening licks of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven - has been wending its way through courts...

In the late 1980s, the music industry faced what it considered, at the time, to be an existential threat. A new category of digital...

Although the American Federation of Musicians Commercial Announcements Agreement expired in early December, the Joint Policy Committee...

The ANA-4A’s Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent Union Relations (the “JPC”) and the American Federation of Musicians have...