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Between March and November last year, the co-founders of McNally Smith College of Music loaned the school $ 1.33 million in a failed attempt to keep the St. Paul school in business. The for-profit college's gross income, records show, fell from $ 10.6 million in 2016 to $ 9.6 million a year later amid declining […]
Between internet streaming, rights to deceased artists’ work, politicians stealing songs for rallies, and remixes and sampling, music licensing has become a hot legal topic over the past decade. And in a time when so many artists are co-writing, co-performing, featuring, and guest appearing on other artists’ work, figuring out who owns how much of […]
On a beautiful, warm Saturday afternoon, Canarsie Park was filled with families enjoying a day of food, fun and music at the Canarsie Love Festival on Aug. 19. The event was organized by Debbie Tiamfook of the Foresee Community Outreach Center and her niece Tunisha Walker as part of Canarsie Strong, a neighborhood-based activist group. […]
This past week, Sir Paul McCartney was finally able to regain the copyrights to much of the Beatles’ music catalog. The acquisition was part of a confidential settlement agreement related to a lawsuit filed this past January by McCartney seeking to regain individual songs that would meet the 56-year-old requirement in 2018. The Beatles first […]
You probably don’t know the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), but your favorite songwriters may be members of the organization. This week, ASCAP entered into a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice, paying $ 1.75 million to resolve allegations that it was involved in anti-competitive practices. The organization did not admit […]