Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Year-on-year increase in DMCA take down requests, but is anything being done about this? DMN takes a look… Google have experienced a year-on-year increase in the number of DMCA takedown requests. But over the past two years there has been a major incline – DMCA takedown requests have quadrupled. In 2014, Google reportedly processed a […]
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Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani and more have signed a new petition
The post YouTube faces superstar backlash over DMCA – but is it the best strategy? appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Nikki Sixx has had enough of Google and its low-royalty paying streaming services. Sixx sends Google founder, Larry Page an open letter, which reads… ”Dear Mr. Page, The sound of musicians knocking on YouTube’s door demanding change is growing ever louder. Recently, as a result of action and statements made by artists as diverse as […]
The post Nikki Sixx Appeals Directly To Google Founder For Higher YouTube Royalty Rates appeared first on Digital Music News.
As a self-release storms the chart, what does the future hold for major rights-holders?
The post Apple takes its Chance to show up the music biz… as Google licks its lips appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Google doesn’t seem to be getting away with this case… Today (Monday 6th June) the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Google’s appeal to get their class action thrown out. The claims brought forward suggest that the search giant wasn’t transparent with advertisers regarding the placement of purchased ads on the site. The claim comes from a series of advertisers who […]
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The 2008 lawsuit accused Google of violating California fair advertising laws because it misled advertisers about where the ads would be placed.
A U.S. jury handed Google a major victory on Thursday in a long-running copyright battle with Oracle over Android software used to run most of the world’s smartphones.
Is Google using ‘fair use’ as an excuse? Yesterday, a jury in a California District Federal court threw out Oracle’s claim that Google abused the use of their copyright of their code. The judge declared that the search giant’s use of the code in Android was fair use, which completely freed the tech giant of […]
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It already allows businesses to advertise store locations based on search keywords. The new feature will show ads automatically to users along their driving route.
This year’s crop of products at the I/O conference have a decidedly déjà vu feeling to them.