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Royalties
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MediaWrites
Credits Due: the music industry’s new royalty and metadata campaign
What is metadata? In the context of the music industry, metadata is a set of data attached to an audio file, which identifies, and gives key information about, a song…
Energy Law Report
Plaintiff lessors bear burden of proof in royalty breach claim
In the Tennant v. Range Res. Appalachia decision issued on Sept. 21, 2021, Judge Hardy of the Western District of Pennsylvania determined that unless an oil and gas lease expressly…
Ogden Glazer + Schaefer Blog
A Cut of What?
Royalties, the Net v. Gross Profit Distinction, and Dolly Parton. Part 1 One of my guiding life principles is as follows: if it can include Dolly Parton, it should include…
Broadcast Law Blog
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 5, 2021 to June 11, 2021
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these…
The Patent Playbook
Delaware High Court Allows Licensee To Stop Royalty Payments By Disclaiming Patent Claims
By James Anderson, Baldassare Vinti
In an opinion issued on March 3, 2021, the Supreme Court of Delaware, one of the top commercial courts in the country, overturned a jury verdict that Glaxo Group Limited…
E2 Law Blog
Is the Oil and Gas Lease Over? Court Ruling Offers Guidance
Roughly 15 years ago, many Pennsylvania landowners entered into oil and gas leases in the expectation of receiving royalties for the extraction of shale gas and oil underlying their properties.…
The Energy Law Blog
Texas Supreme Court Update: The Court Decides Issue of First Impression Related to the Scope of an Oil and Gas Lease’s
Free-Use Clause and Further Interprets Conflicting Royalty Clause Provisions The Texas Supreme Court recently issued its anticipated decision in BlueStone Natural Resources II, LLC v. Randle, affirming in part and…
Broadcast Law Blog
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters – February 27, 2021 to March 5, 2021
By David Oxenford, Adam Sandler
Here are some of the regulatory developments of the last week of significance to broadcasters, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these…
Broadcast Law Blog
GMR Offers to Extend Its Interim License With Commercial Radio Stations – But It Wants a 20% Increase in Royalty Payments
Global Music Rights, one of the newest performing rights organization licensing the public performance of musical compositions, has agreed to extend its interim license with commercial radio broadcasters. That license…
LegallyLayman
Royalty paid by Radio companies to Music Labels – Current Legal Position in India
By Monalisha Singh, Student, Chanakya National Law University, Patna __________________________________________________________________________________________________ A temporary order upholding the status quo of the royalty rate for radio transmissions under statutory license has been passed…