On August 3, 2001 legislation was proposed to facilitate online broadcasting and distribution of music. The proposed Music Online Competition Act (MOCA) seeks to streamline the distribution of music over the Internet, increase competition, and avoid the monopolization of the online music industry by the record companies. This iBrief discusses several changes that MOCA would implement in the law and the reaction of the recording industry to these proposed changes
Since Napster made mass digital downloads and online piracy available and accessible in June of 1999...
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has provided a voice in Washington, D.C. for musicians since 200...
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has provided a voice in Washington, D.C. for musicians since 200...
The current licensing regime practiced by collective rights organizations (“CROs”) is preventing rig...
No one has yet been able to agree on the meaning of the copyright laws related to webcast licensing ...
The system for licensing music in the United States for public performances through radio, televisio...
In 2001 the five major record companies, controlling more than 80 percent of prerecorded music sales...
Streaming music over the Internet, or what otherwise is known as webcasting or Internet radio, has t...
On February 4, 2009, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the Performance Rights Act ( PRA ) to the Sena...
Copyright law, specifically music licensing, has long been outdated due to changes in the way people...
The Copyright Act has not kept pace with the times, and the next revolution is going full stream ahe...
The Copyright Act has not kept pace with the times, and the next revolution is going full stream ahe...
[Excerpt] The laws that determine who pays whom in the digital world were written, by and large, at ...
Today, music is everywhere, but this was not always the case. Listeners are surrounded by endless ac...
The shift from record sales to music streaming has revolutionized the music industry. The federal co...
Since Napster made mass digital downloads and online piracy available and accessible in June of 1999...
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has provided a voice in Washington, D.C. for musicians since 200...
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has provided a voice in Washington, D.C. for musicians since 200...
The current licensing regime practiced by collective rights organizations (“CROs”) is preventing rig...
No one has yet been able to agree on the meaning of the copyright laws related to webcast licensing ...
The system for licensing music in the United States for public performances through radio, televisio...
In 2001 the five major record companies, controlling more than 80 percent of prerecorded music sales...
Streaming music over the Internet, or what otherwise is known as webcasting or Internet radio, has t...
On February 4, 2009, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the Performance Rights Act ( PRA ) to the Sena...
Copyright law, specifically music licensing, has long been outdated due to changes in the way people...
The Copyright Act has not kept pace with the times, and the next revolution is going full stream ahe...
The Copyright Act has not kept pace with the times, and the next revolution is going full stream ahe...
[Excerpt] The laws that determine who pays whom in the digital world were written, by and large, at ...
Today, music is everywhere, but this was not always the case. Listeners are surrounded by endless ac...
The shift from record sales to music streaming has revolutionized the music industry. The federal co...
Since Napster made mass digital downloads and online piracy available and accessible in June of 1999...
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has provided a voice in Washington, D.C. for musicians since 200...
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has provided a voice in Washington, D.C. for musicians since 200...