Copyright Issues in Online Music Delivery (open access)

Copyright Issues in Online Music Delivery

This report gives a brief overview of the basic elements of music licensing and surveys recent developments n the U.S. Copyright Office's implementation of the DMCA.
Date: June 4, 2002
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Term Extension and Music Licensing: Analysis of Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and Fairness in Music Licensing Act, P.L. 105-298 (open access)

Copyright Term Extension and Music Licensing: Analysis of Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and Fairness in Music Licensing Act, P.L. 105-298

This report explains the provisions of PL 105-298, reviews key aspects of the legislative history and notes changes from prior law.
Date: October 27, 1998
Creator: Schrader, Dorothy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Money for Something: Music Licensing in the 21st Century (open access)

Money for Something: Music Licensing in the 21st Century

This report discusses music licensing laws and various copyright issues related to music licensing and royalties especially regarding areas such as digital music streaming services.
Date: April 6, 2018
Creator: Scherer, Dana A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance (open access)

Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance

This report provides an overview of the complexities of the Copyright Act's Provisions concerning music licensing in the digital age. Copyright law provides protection for original works of authorship by conferring certain exclusive rights upon their creators.
Date: January 29, 2008
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance (open access)

Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance

This report provides an overview of the complexities of the Copyright Act's provisions concerning music licensing in the digital age.
Date: August 30, 2006
Creator: Huber, Jared & Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance (open access)

Copyright Licensing in Music Distribution, Reproduction, and Public Performance

This report provides an overview of the complexities of the Copyright Act's provisions concerning music licensing. It also discusses several issues involving copyrights in musical works and sound recordings that have been the subject of recent congressional and judicial consideration.
Date: April 15, 2015
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Money for Something: Music Licensing in the 21st Century (open access)

Money for Something: Music Licensing in the 21st Century

This report describes the current legal framework governing licensing and rate-setting in the music industry. It also examines the changes in technology and consumer behavior that have reshaped the industry.
Date: May 7, 2015
Creator: Scherer, Dana A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Cases in the Courts: Napster, MP3 Digital Music, and DVD Motion Picture Encryption Technology (open access)

Copyright Cases in the Courts: Napster, MP3 Digital Music, and DVD Motion Picture Encryption Technology

This report discusses copyright cases in the courts, including Napster, MP3 digital music, and DVD motion picture.
Date: February 16, 2001
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2007 (S. 256): Section-by-Section Analysis (open access)

Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2007 (S. 256): Section-by-Section Analysis

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Date: March 15, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mechanical Royalty Rate on Sound Recordings: Survey of Issues Before the Judiciary Committees of the Congress (open access)

The Mechanical Royalty Rate on Sound Recordings: Survey of Issues Before the Judiciary Committees of the Congress

This study will attempt to review and place into perspective the principal arguments voiced by both the music publishers and the record producers in their respective testimony before Subcommittee No. 3 of the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the 89th and 90th congress.
Date: June 30, 1969
Creator: Knight, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
WTO Dispute Settlement: Status of U.S. Compliance in Pending Cases (open access)

WTO Dispute Settlement: Status of U.S. Compliance in Pending Cases

This report discusses the details of fourteen World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes in which rulings have not yet been implemented or in which the United States has acted and the dispute has not been fully resolved. The cases include disputes regarding trade remedies, antidumping, aircraft subsidies, cotton subsidies, online gambling restrictions, music copyright law, and trademark infringement.
Date: March 11, 2011
Creator: Grimmett, Jeanne J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Term Extension: Estimating the Economic Values (open access)

Copyright Term Extension: Estimating the Economic Values

This report considers proposals to extend the duration of copyrights by 20 years (as in H.R. 2589 and other bills) and related proposals to charge a fee to the owners in order to receive the extension. The method of analysis is economic rather than legal. The report reviews the basic economic principals involved in copyright law and gives rough estimates of the value of copyrights on books, music, and movies produced in the 1920s and 1930s — those that would be most immediately affected by an extension of copyright terms.
Date: May 11, 1998
Creator: Rappaport, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
WTO Dispute Settlement: Status of U.S. Compliance in Pending Cases (open access)

WTO Dispute Settlement: Status of U.S. Compliance in Pending Cases

Although the United States has complied with adverse rulings in many past World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes, there are currently 14 cases in which rulings have not yet been implemented or the United States has acted and the dispute has not been fully resolved. Nine unresolved cases involve trade remedies. The report discusses all fourteen cases in detail, which include antidumping, aircraft subsidies, cotton subsidies, online gambling restrictions, music copyright law, and trademark infringement.
Date: April 23, 2012
Creator: Grimmett, Jeanne J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Digital Rights" and Fair Use in Copyright Law (open access)

"Digital Rights" and Fair Use in Copyright Law

This report examines judicial case law which has considered the doctrine of fair use in relation to the First Amendment, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and as a means of protecting private, noncommercial use of digital music and film by consumers. It concludes that when the potential to infringe is great, as it almost always will be in a digital environment, the courts have not been willing to expand fair use to encompass subsidiary uses such as time shifting, space shifting, or personal noncommercial use.
Date: March 24, 2003
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Term Extension: Estimating the Economic Values (open access)

Copyright Term Extension: Estimating the Economic Values

This report considers proposals to extend the duration of copyrights by 20 years (as in H.R. 2589 and other bills) and related proposals to charge a fee to the owners in order to receive the extension. The method of analysis is economic rather than legal. The report reviews the basic economic principals involved in copyright law and gives rough estimates of the value of copyrights on books, music, and movies produced in the 1920s and 1930s — those that would be most immediately affected by an extension of copyright terms.
Date: May 11, 1998
Creator: Rappaport, Edward B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services and Copyright Law Issues (open access)

Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services and Copyright Law Issues

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Date: July 12, 2006
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act of 2007 (H.R. 4789 and S. 2500) (open access)

Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act of 2007 (H.R. 4789 and S. 2500)

This report provides information about a Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act of 2007 (H.R. 4789 and S. 2500) on Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings.
Date: May 15, 2008
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848 and S. 379) (open access)

Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848 and S. 379)

This report provides information about a Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act of 2007 (H.R. 4789 and S. 2500) on Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings.
Date: October 28, 2009
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848 and S. 379) (open access)

Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848 and S. 379)

This report provides information about a Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act of 2007 (H.R. 4789 and S. 2500) on Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings.
Date: May 20, 2009
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Protection of Digital Audio Radio Broadcasts: The “Audio Flag” (open access)

Copyright Protection of Digital Audio Radio Broadcasts: The “Audio Flag”

This report provides a brief explanation of the audio flag and its relationship to digital audio radio broadcasts, and summarizes legislative proposals considered by the 109th Congress, including H.R. 4861 (Audio Broadcast Flag License Act of 2006) and S. 2686 (Digital Content Protection Act of 2006), that would have authorized its adoption.
Date: January 16, 2007
Creator: Huber, Jared & Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Protection of Digital Audio Radio Broadcasts: The “Audio Flag” (open access)

Copyright Protection of Digital Audio Radio Broadcasts: The “Audio Flag”

This report provides a brief explanation of the audio flag and its relationship to digital audio radio broadcasts, and summarizes legislative proposals considered by the 109th Congress, including H.R. 4861 (Audio Broadcast Flag License Act of 2006) and S. 2686 (Digital Content Protection Act of 2006), that would have authorized its adoption.
Date: August 4, 2006
Creator: Huber, Jared & Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Law’s “Small Business Exception”: Public Performance Exemptions for Certain Establishments (open access)

Copyright Law’s “Small Business Exception”: Public Performance Exemptions for Certain Establishments

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Date: December 10, 2003
Creator: Tatelman, Todd B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arts in Education: Background and Legislation (open access)

Arts in Education: Background and Legislation

This report is on Arts in Education: Background and Legislation.
Date: January 8, 2007
Creator: Boren, Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library