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Such devastating news for so many of our country music clients as well as the good folk of Tamworth. But no doubt this great event will be back bigger and better in 2022. From the good people at www.themusic.com.au Council Votes To Suspend Major Aussie Music Festival’s 2021 Event 9 September 2020 | “Today is a sad day, not only for Tamworth, but for the artists, and the country music industry.” The 2021 Tamworth Country Music Festival will not be going ahead after Tamworth Region Councillors last nig...

In May this year, Justice Wigney of the Federal Court awarded actor Geoffrey Rush a monumental $2.87 million payout after he won a case against the Daily Telegraph’s publisher Nationwide News. Rush will receive the highest defamation payout to a single individual in Australia’s history, following the rescindment on appeal of Rebel Wilson’s record-breaking payout of $3.9 million from Bauer Media. Rush’s payout includes over $1 million for past economic loss, $919,678 in future economic loss and $42,000 in interest. The case aro...

In March of this year, Warner music group made headlines by signing an album distribution deal with Endel, a ‘mood-music’ algorithm, with the deal being reported as the first of its kind. An application designed to create ‘personalized, sound-based, adaptive environments that help people focus and relax’, Endel has the potential to become a case-study for the future of AI created music. Several questions relating to copyright ownership should be considered in light of this venture, with the nature of who owns the copyright for...

A recent jury decision handed down in California held that the writers of ‘Dark Horse‘, Perry’s hit song, copied a part of ‘Joyful Noise‘, a song by Christian rapper, Flame. The track from Perry’s fourth studio album ‘Prism’ remained at the top of the charts for four weeks in 2013. Flame was awarded almost $2.8 million in damages in what has been criticised as setting a dangerous precedent. Musicians are worried about the wider implications in the industry, claiming that the copied part of ...

EU copyright laws are being revamped this year for the first time since 2001. As a prime opportunity to bring the laws up to speed with modern technologies, this should be something to celebrate. However, the response to anticipated changes has been the opposite. In fact, there is a strong campaign against Article 13 of the proposed directive, which campaigners contend will lead to memes being banned. Article 13 is intended to protect the intellectual property (IP) rights of people who upload their material to the internet and allow t...