By Jan Jensen and Ryan Smith of Zuber & Taillieu LLP
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a webcasting service that provides users with customized internet radio stations is not an “interactive service” under 17 U.S.C. section 114(j)(7), and therefore need not pay individual licensing fees to sound recording copyright holders. In Arista Records, LLC et al v.… More...
The Copyright Office (“Office”) of the Library of Congress has published a final rule establishing adjusted fees for its services. More...
The Copyright Office has issued on November 1, 2007 a final rule that revises its rules covering applications for registration of claims for renewal term of copyrights. These regulations were issued in light of fact that since January 1, 2006, all applications for renewal “have necessarily More...
The Copyright royalty Board has issued new regulations governing the rates and terms for two statutory licenses. These licenses refer to the grant of certain digital performances of sound recordings and the making of ephemeral recordings. The new regulation applies to license apply to the license More...
Amendments to copyright registration fees were undertaken by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. Assuming that no legislative action on this matter will be implemented by July 1, 2007, these amendments took effect on July 1, 2007. This final rule imposed a “lower basic More...
