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A date in court for Robin Thicke Coming soon to a pop court near you

That old saying about hits and writs comes to mind when you consider the latest slew of music-related court actions

The Killers: unwanted guests at the Electric Picnic Irish festivals 2013 round-up: from the fields to the courtrooms

The state of play with festivals like the Electric Picnic, Longitude, Slane, Oxegen and many more players in what’s going to be a very busy summer

Licence for Marlay Park concerts granted subject to 53 conditions

An events licence for a series of concerts at Dublin’s Marlay Park next month has been granted, subject to 53 conditions. The application for an outdoor event licence was granted by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on May 29, before the …

For record labels, 35 years of revenue just isn’t enough
  • Legal
  • February 17, 2012, 09:18

The law giveth and the law taketh away. Record labels worldwide always call their legal eagles when the going gets tough and those pesky kids need to be slapped down. We’ve seen a rash of this carry-on already in 2012, …

Why legal actions and blocking access won’t stymie piracy

It hasn’t gone away, you know. Most of us thought that the debate around music piracy would have been done and dusted by 2012. Yet years after the record industry ran the original Napster out of town but never got …

Pre-digital era record contracts come back to bite labels

Chalk it down as another victory for the old-timers. A court case winding its way through the US legal system may result in a big pay-day for thousands of acts who haven’t released a new album in years. The case …

UPC 1, Irish record labels 0

The legal action taken by four Irish major record labels against UPC, the third biggest internet service provider in Ireland, has not gone according to the script. Per Ciara O’Brien’s report, Mr Justice Peter Charleton has ruled that “laws to …

US VP of Everything takes on the Jolly Roger fans

It has been an interesting week in the music piracy business. The BPI (the British version of IRMA) issued a cease-and-desist notice to Google requesting them to remove links to nine hosting sites, such as Megaupload, Sendspace and Usershare, which …