You Are on Pandora, Ladies and Gentlemen (Part 10 of our Online Music Services Series)
Pass the Tests, Join the Webcasting Tribe Pandora has actually been around for a long time. It launched in 2005. It bills itself as “internet radio,” but that’s not quite right. There are no disc jockeys making song selections. Instead, it uses its famed Music...
Tara Aaron has been named as a nominee to the Nashville Bar Association Board of Directors
The Nashville Bar Association released its slate of twelve nominees for its Board of Directors this afternoon. The nominees include deserving attorneys from all areas of practice and size of law firm. Tara was nominated towards the end of her year chairing the IP...
Swatch it Bloomberg!
Sound Recording Copyrights Aren't Just for Songs Here’s another example of how the application of copyright law to some common, situations can be counter-intuitive and even a little strange. Swatch, the swiss watch-maker, was having a regular conference call with...
Rick Sanders has been named to "Best Lawyers" 2011 in Intellectual Property Litigation.
Rick Sanders has been named as a "Best Lawyer" in Intellectual Property Litigation. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. We here at Aaron | Sanders PLLC are not at all surprised that Rick has earned this...
Music-Locker Services: DMCA Protection and the "Single Master" (Part 9 of our Online Music Services Series)
What We Did Learn (Sort of) from the MP3Tunes Decision In our last post, we looked at what the MP3Tunes decision didn’t tell us--that it didn’t put the music industry’s best argument to the test. We looked at the contours of this “nuclear option,” including the...
Music-Locker Services: DMCA Protection and the “Single Master” (Part 9 of our Online Music Services Series)
What We Did Learn (Sort of) from the MP3Tunes Decision In our last post, we looked at what the MP3Tunes decision didn’t tell us--that it didn’t put the music industry’s best argument to the test. We looked at the contours of this “nuclear option,” including the...
Music-Locker Services: DMCA Protection and the "Single Master" (Part 9 of our Online Music Services Series)
What We Did Learn (Sort of) from the MP3Tunes Decision In our last post, we looked at what the MP3Tunes decision didn’t tell us--that it didn’t put the music industry’s best argument to the test. We looked at the contours of this “nuclear option,” including the...
Music-Locker Services: Is in the Cloud in the Cards? (Part 8 of Our Online Music Services Series)
What the MP3Tunes Decision Tells Us About Music-Locker Services (I know I said that our next posts in our Online Music Service Series would be about Pandora and Turntable.fm, but the recent decision in the MP3Tunes case has inspired me to look at the Amazon, Google...
In Grooveshark’s Defense: Red Flags and Financial Benefit (Part 7 in our Online Music Services Series)
Why Grooveshark Might Not Swim into the DMCA Safe Harbor In our last blog post, we examined two of the four main requirements for Grooveshark’s DMCA safe-harbor defense. Those requirements were (1) having and implementing a repeat-infringer policy, and (2) compliance...
In Grooveshark's Defense: Red Flags and Financial Benefit (Part 7 in our Online Music Services Series)
Why Grooveshark Might Not Swim into the DMCA Safe Harbor In our last blog post, we examined two of the four main requirements for Grooveshark’s DMCA safe-harbor defense. Those requirements were (1) having and implementing a repeat-infringer policy, and (2) compliance...
In Grooveshark’s Defense: DMCA Safe-Harbor Protection (Part 6 of Online Music Service Series)
Is Grooveshark Just the YouTube of Music? Although Grooveshark has been sued now three times, it has not yet had to explain why it thinks its activities are legal. After all, as we explained in our last two posts, its activities are infringing--but surely...
In Grooveshark’s Defense: DMCA Safe-Harbor Protection (Part 6 of Online Music Service Series)
Is Grooveshark Just the YouTube of Music? Although Grooveshark has been sued now three times, it has not yet had to explain why it thinks its activities are legal. After all, as we explained in our last two posts, its activities are infringing--but surely...
