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Music Law in Plain English: Can Bankruptcy Stop Artists From Reclaiming Their Copyrights? Lil’ Joe Records, Inc. v. Mark Ross
Music Law in Plain English: Can Bankruptcy Stop Artists From Reclaiming Their Copyrights? Lil’ Joe Records, Inc. v. Mark Ross One of the most artist-friendly features of U.S. copyright law is the termination right. In plain English, it allows creators to take back copyrights they signed away decades earlier. Congress introduced the rule because artists,…
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Fixed Ideas: The Shaky Foundations of Music Copyright
Even before the recent proliferation of generative AI music tools, something about the Western conception of copyright had always struck me as sitting at odds with the classical ideals of human expression I cultivated in innumerable musicology lectures. What follows is a preliminary attempt to tease out some of the ways in which copyright is,…