Goohoo Delayed

iTunes Lives to Sell Another 5 Billion Songs

Not that it would ever have happened anyway, but Apple will not be shutting down the iTunes Store in protest over increased royalty rates paid to songwriters and publishers for CDs and digital music downloads.

Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!?? I Smell the Blood of a Musician.

The Recording Industry Association of America demands damages of $150,000 per song for file-sharing infringements, yet it pays the artists who create those songs pennies for their work. And now it wants to pay them even less. The RIAA and its online counterpart, the Digital Media Association, have petitioned the Copyright Royalty Board to slash [...]

YouTube Forecast: Lawsuits With a Chance of More Lawyers

Another week, another legal battle for YouTube. This time, the National Music Publishers Association is adding its name to an existing lawsuit over whether the video-sharing site–big surprise–violated copyright laws. The group owns copyrights to lyrics and melodies for songs, rather than the songs themselves, which are mostly owned by record labels. And while the [...]