Boucher Re-Introduces Fair Use Bill…Again

Representative Rick Boucher, Democrat from Virgina, has introduced a bill that would expand the protection of fair use under copyright law. This is the third time in as many Congressional sessions that the good representative has introduced a Fair Use bill. You just can’t keep a good man down! Like the other bills he introduced over the last four years, the new bill could protect many companies and consumers from copyright...

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Ministry of Sound And AIM Exchange Blows Over WMG Merger and NDA

Ministry of Sound, the grounded U.K. dance music label, has issued its second “open letter” to Association of Independent Music (AIM) in just two days, targeting Warner Music Group and bashing AIM’s acceptance of a Non-Disclosure Agreement covering the deal with the major label. The London-based firm had earlier resigned from AIM, the U.K. independent music companies’ trade body, in protest of Impala’s...

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