British Music Rights Survey Reveals Teenage Music Consumption Behavior

British Music Rights has released the results of an extensive survey investigating the music consumption behavior and experience of young people aged 14-24. The largest U.K. academic survey of its kind was carried out in February and March of 2008 by the University Of Hertfordshire. Music Experience and Behavior in Young People presents a number of headline messages, according to BMR, including the news that “14- to 24-year-olds...

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RIAA Drops Infringement Lawsuit Against Joan Cassin After “Making Available” Challenge

House Of Cards Finally Falling? The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, if you’re nasty) has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit against Joan Cassin. The news demonstrates that the RIAA is finding itself more and more on shaky legal ground, and begins to raise even more questions about its tactic for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharers. The case, Warner v. Cassin, was voluntarily dropped...

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