ALBANY In an unprecedented expansion of common law copyright protections, the Court of Appeals yesterday said recording artists are shielded in perpetuity under New York standards even when their ...

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A New York court has dramatically extended the length of copyright protection for sound recordings. The April 5 decision of the New York Court of Appeals means that sound recordings made before 1972 ...

ALBANY - No common law right of public performance exists in New York state to compel Sirius XM Radio to pay fees for the use of pre-1972 sound recordings by popular artists such as The Turtles, the ...

“We should draw a timely lesson from HIP v. Hormel…. Let’s allow the courts to consider individual cases about who owns patents and copyrights to which AI contributed.” Publications from academia and ...

Though never a colony of England, California nonetheless has adopted the Common Law of England as the rule of decision in the state's courts (except when repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the ...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that California common law on copyright protection does not include a right of public performance, reversing a partial summary judgment ...