Meta’s roughly $17 billion social-media addiction settlement promises sweeping protections for children and teens. But viewed ...

Data centers have crossed from local land-use controversy into the 2026 campaign ad war. Candidates in Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin ...

What Is Machine Unlearning—and Why Should Musicians Care? One of the most important promises emerging in AI licensing is also one of the least understood: machine unlearning. AI companies increasingly ...

Full disclosure: I have a little skin in this game. A few editions of All You Need to Know About the Music Business included the classical music section that you kindly thanked me for helping with.

One of the persistent criticisms of the music industry is that it struggles to reach consensus on difficult issues. That is why this week’s announcement deserves recognition. A remarkably broad ...

For millions of soccer fans, attending a FIFA World Cup match is a dream. But for a growing number of ticket buyers, that dream has turned into a costly nightmare—and now the state of Texas is getting ...

If you saw the adverb “forever” in a contract, would it give you pause? It would me—I would wonder who allowed that to slip through. As text-to-audio generative AI models desperately try to normalize ...

Multi-generation family farm dispute has become a national property-rights story. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to give up my property either. A Kentucky family is suing to protect its ancestral ...

The order itself is only two pages long and, standing alone, is somewhat opaque. A reader could easily come away without understanding what the settlement actually does. For that reason, we are ...

To my knowledge, the current Phonorecords V proceeding is the first time a voluntary negotiation period at a Phonorecords proceeding before the Copyright Royalty ...

At what point does a statutory royalty administrator start looking less like a collective licensing entity and more like an unregistered investment fund or small bank? That question is becoming ...

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell’s latest scoop on the Texas AI buildout reads like a local story about cautious legislators and data center growth. It’s actually much more; it’s a preview of a much larger ...