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Picture it – 11:00 AM, Friday, February 20, 2026. It’s the penultimate panel at Power Players 2026. The four mavens arrive: Bill Colitre, Chief Operating Officer at Music Reports, Inc.; Revi-Ruth Enriquez Cohen, Vice President of Legal at Broadcast Music, …
The Caribbean is a melting pot of heritage. The region was inhabited by Indigenous Americans, followed by Europeans who brought enslaved people from China, India, and Africa to grow crops in the colonies for shipment back to their respective countries. …
As we head into the end of November, Spotify Wrapped 2025 is due to be released any day now. Discussed among friends and shared across social media, Wrapped is generally perceived by subscribers as a celebration of their own year …
Songwriting is a revenue engine of the music industry. In 2023, Taylor Swift generated an estimated $75 million from streaming and radio airplay from her songwriting catalogue.[1] Music publishers have structured the songwriting subindustry by organizing songwriting sessions, grouping songwriters …
Before the Internet and technological advances, licensing musical compositions and sound recordings was difficult. Intellectual property rights, like reproduction, creating derivatives, distribution, and public performance, were often owned by entities like music publishers, record labels, or independent distributors, who were …
On February 21, Loyola Law School hosted the 2025 Entertainment Law Review (“ELR”) Symposium on its campus. This year’s theme was ‘From Precedent to Algorithm: Navigating AI, Law, and the New Entertainment Frontier.’ The ELR Symposium kicked off with a …
Image used under license from Shutterstock.com. Does Pandora’s free ad-supported streaming service (“Pandora Free”) offer its users interactive streams? In a lawsuit filed on February 12, 2024, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (“The MLC”) asserts that Pandora Free falls under the …
Image used under license from Shutterstock.com. Since the start of his political campaign in February 2023, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy utilized the song “Lose Yourself” by rapper Eminem as an anthem for rallies across the country.[1] In one viral video, …
