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If Led Zeppelin rips you off, then it’s all part of the creative process. If you rip off Led Zeppelin, then get ready for a legal process. Yesterday, court documents unearthed numerous instances in which Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant admitted to stealing and plagiarizing works. In the late 1980s, Zeppelin settled […]
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Lowery demands transparency in Spotify case… Back in December last year Spotify faced a lawsuit brought forward by musician David Lowery, frontman of bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. Lowery, who carries a long history of advocating for fair pay for artists, claimed that Spotify is distributing copyrighted content while skipping key royalties. As a result, Lowery demanded around $150 million […]
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“I think when Willie Dixon turned on the radio in Chicago twenty years after he wrote his blues, he thought, ‘That’s my song [Whole Lotta Love].’ … When we ripped it off, I said to Jimmy, ‘Hey, that’s not our song.’ And he said, ‘Shut up and keep walking.’” Robert Plant, as quoted by Barney […]
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We are not-devaluing music at all… Google has previously claimed that it is impossible to de-value music as songs will always be worth different things to different people at different times. Now, Google is claiming that they in fact ADD value to music. ”To date, Content ID has generated more than $1 billion in revenue for the content […]
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Copyright infringement case opened. Copyright infringement case closed. Last week, a US federal judge allowed a major copyright infringement lawsuit to proceed against Led Zeppelin, specifically over allegations that the group stole their seminal classic, ‘Stairway to Heaven’. That lawsuit was filed by the estate of Randy California, whose 60s-era band, Spirit, claims that Zeppelin ripped […]
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What’s the future of YouTube Music? Digital Music News recently reported that YouTube’s deals with the record labels have ended, and also that 40% of streaming music is consumed via YouTube, accounting for only 4% of the total revenue for the record labels. In my recent video for A Dose of Buckley, I break down […]
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Google says YouTube is already paying artists billions, while properly managing copyright through internal mechanisms like ContentID. Industry organizations like the IFPI say it’s not enough, and are pushing legislators hard on the matter. Now, someone is taking notice: EU digital chief Andrus Ansip, who is now demanding changes in the way that YouTube compensates artists. […]
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Earlier this week, a federal judge allowed a copyright infringement suit to proceed against Led Zeppelin, specifically over the seminal song, ‘Stairway to Heaven’. The plaintiff is Michael Skidmore, a trustee of the Randy Wolfe estate, who ties back to the band Spirit. Spirit has long felt that their track, ‘Taurus,’ was lifted by Zeppelin for […]
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Based on sales volumes of different recording formats, as a percentage of the whole, since 2006. This loops a few times, then just refresh the page if you want to see it again! And, if you want to see an individual yearly breakdown, here they are: Methodology. Each yearly quadrant for each year is based […]
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