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Using Photos on Your Website – Court Decision Highlights Problems with a Creative Commons License and Other Copyright Issues

By David Oxenford|2021-07-16T10:08:07-05:00July 16th, 2021|Legal News|

We’ve written many times about the perils of posting a photo on your website without getting permission from the photo’s owner (see, for instance, our articles here and here). Copyright protects photos, even when they are shared on the Internet. Just by posting a photo to some website does not mean that the owner has... Continue Reading…

GMR Sues Entravision for Royalty Payments – Looking at the Issues Raised By This New Development in the Music Royalty Wars

By David Oxenford|2019-10-16T10:43:49-05:00October 16th, 2019|Legal News|

Global Music Rights (most commonly known as GMR), the newest of the major performing rights organizations (PROs) licensing public performances of musical compositions, filed a lawsuit against radio operator Entravision Communications earlier this month. The suit alleges that Entravision failed to pay GMR royalties for the public performance of hundreds of compositions written by GMR... Continue Reading…