Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and …

Trademarks on recordings are routinely used to ensure the accuracy of identifying information that music consumers may … federal trademark statute is not concerned with the source of intangible content such as music (or pictures, literature, etc … music trademarks if their legal reasoning were taken seriously. Dastar would prevent recording artists and labels from using …

This chapter is a songwriter’s essay on the Music Modernization Act and how it attempts to address the future of the … songwriting profession in the digital age. Although the advent of streaming has resuscitated the music industry writ large …

comparison with formalist approaches to another subject matter: music. In that area, too, formalism initially faced considerable …

The Australian Federal Court case of Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Sharman License Holdings Ltd ( Sharman ) is …

This chapter explores IP protectability of what may be broadly termed “folk music,” though, that is a term fraught with … music. Traditional folk music and, more generally, traditional knowledge and expression (TKE) are not generally protectable … musical works, including in particular folk music broadly understood to provide economic and other benefits to originators and …