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COMMENTARY: RIGHT ON THE MONEY
05/17/2008
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently handed down a landmark decision upholding the rights of music creators in the Digital Age.
By setting compensation rates for the public performance of music on three Internet services—AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo—the decision establishes new ground rules for virtually every Internet content aggregator and social networking site, as well as countless online, mobile or other technology-driven services yet to be imagined.
In the broadest sense, the court reaffirmed and applied to the virtual world the momentous 1917 Supreme Court decision recognizing that music creators deserved copyright protection for the public performance of their works.
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