Posts Tagged ‘mechanical licensing’

Legal Notes: Napster’s Muscle Falls to Indie Label Rounder Records in NY Federal Court Battle

FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Picture it, the Internet, 1999. Napster launches out of a college dorm room in Massachusetts, and becomes one of the biggest forces in the music industry to reckon with. Its mechanism of peer-to-peer music file-sharing causes nothing short of a music-technology revolution, and major Read more...

ASCAP, RightsFlow Partner with Limelight Licensing Service Offering

Performing rights organization ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), and licensing/rolalty service provider RightsFlow, both NYC-based, announced they have entered into a partnership to offer mechanical licensing services to ASCAP’s songwriter, composer and publisher members – nearly 400,000 in total — through RightsFlow’s Limelight online utility.

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