Music - Remixing, Sampling, Copying, Copyright and Technology

The case against Childish Gambino is the latest in a run of copyright claims | Business (2021)

When should artists get paid in a world with AI music?The first 100 people to use code CLEOABRAM with the link below will get 60% off of Incogni: h... (2023)

Ghostwriter, the creator who made the viral AI Drake song, is back with another track using the voices of Travis Scott and 21 Savage. (2023)

All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs—with consumption of new music actually shrinking. How did we get here, and is there a... (2022)

A graphic novel laying out a 2000 year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. The comic, by James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and the lat... (2018)

Duke University School of Law Published on Mar 10, 2017 A graphic novel covering 2000 years of musical borrowing and regulation, from Plato to ... (2018)

TED, 2014: "Sampling isn't about "hijacking nostalgia wholesale," says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song whi... (2017)

Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including those of Tom Pet... (2018)

VC firms haven’t been the only ones raising hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in a booming market. After 15+ years of being the last indust... (2018)

It’s hard to overstate just how important record album art was to music in the days before people downloaded everything. Visuals were a key part of... (2018)

With record companies licensing more than 45 million tracks to hundreds of digital services around the world, consumers have fewer reasons than eve... (2018)

Francis Malofiy may be the most hated man in the Philadelphia legal community. He may also be on the cusp of getting the last laugh on rock’s golde... (2019)

Music mogul Merck Mercuriadis is spending $1 billion to buy the rights to the most popular pop songs, from Taylor Swift and Timbaland to Bruno Mars. (2020)

This is a story about how the most sophisticated copyright filter in the world prevented us from explaining copyright law. It doesn’t involve TikTo... (2020)