GMR lawsuits

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 1, 2022 to October 7, 2022

By David Oxenford|2022-10-09T09:21:04-05:00October 9th, 2022|Legal News|

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. On October 6, the FCC released a Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Second Notice) proposing to strengthen the process for... Continue Reading…

Lawsuits Filed Against Three Radio Companies Alleging That They are Playing Global Music Rights Songwriters Without a License – Background for the GMR Claims

By David Oxenford|2022-10-07T11:12:47-05:00October 7th, 2022|Legal News|

Global Music Rights (GMR) has sued three radio groups for allegedly playing GMR catalog songs but not paying the associated public performance royalties to GMR. As we have written many times, GMR is a performing rights organization (a “PRO”) representing what they term in the complaints filed against these companies “an elite roster of just over... Continue Reading…