Published stories - Copyright / Legal

While there are a few ways being proposed on how to stop file sharing, Radiohead thinks bandwidth restriction is the answer. Umm, no!

The Pirate Bay may soon be selling music from one of the "big four" major music labels.

he charge of plagiarism carries a special sort of shame.

A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $US1.92 million ($2.4 million) in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.

That leaked U2 album is causing all sorts of trouble. The unreleased album, which is due out on March 3, found its way onto BitTorrent and was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

Cat Stevens has said that he believes that Coldplay's hit 'Viva La Vida' is a take-off of his own song, 'Foreigner Suite'.

With eyes of the law planted firmly on Sweden, and in particular The Pirate Bay, you'd be forgiven for thinking music piracy was born with the rise of the internet, or perhaps the 'home taping is k...

An in-depth analysis of the Coldplay infringement lawsuit

Emily Bezar had her account flagged as a copyright violator after she tried to upload five or six songs from her own self-produced CD.

If you are setting up a legal entity (a corporation for your band / music-related business) with the objective of providing economic and upside incentives to everyone that is or will be involved in...