A high-stakes dispute forcing copyright law to confront a long-standing problem: how to define ‘originality’ for the protection of musical works.

Sony reportedly built tech that identifies original music inside AI-made tracks and estimates influence, adding leverage for licensing and royalty talks.

Spotify’s $11 billion in streaming royalties and other payments to the music industry last year can be traced to ‘Taxman.’ ...

It’s disappointing when people put politics so far ahead, and that happened a little bit with the film, for sure,” Beckman told Variety.

In 2019, pop-punk band Yellowcard filed a lawsuit, via Busch, claiming that Juice Wrld’s smash Lucid Dreams had infringed on the copyright of the melody in their song, Holly Wood Died. The suit was ...

One of blockchain’s best-known uses is as a medium for direct interactions between users, and that feature sees notable use ...

Juana Summers talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about why Charli XCX's music for the Wuthering Heights film represents a bigger, musical trend in romance reading.

“Our goal was to build a clear mathematical bridge between abstract algebra and the experience of listening to music,” said study co-author Olga Ibragimova. “When we think of melodies as shapes we can ...

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an interim Mareva injunction to freeze funds from copyright levies payable to the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria ...

Two federal courts recently issued rulings on notable issues impacting whether and how artists can terminate prior assignments of copyrights in their works.