Azoff's Global Music Rights looks to quash a subpoena and tells a judge that it shouldn't have to give a dominant competitor "near-comprehensive access to the heart and soul of GMR’s business." By ...

BMI today announced that David Levin has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Licensing, effective immediately. In his newly expanded role, Levin is responsible for all of BMI’s domestic ...

The Department of Justice has challenged the Southern District Court of New York decision that DOJ was wrong in concluding it did not need to modify the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees that circumscribe ...

NAB would like the Justice Department to keep intact the consent decrees governing music performance licensing rates that ASCAP and BMI charge radio. The consent decrees “provide important protections ...

After almost a year of legal wrangling, ESPN and Broadcast Music, Inc. have reached a settlement in principle in their dispute over the music licensing fees ESPN should pay to BMI. ESPN filed suit ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Justice Department said Thursday it will not change the consent decrees that govern how the country's top music licensing groups operate, but offered a new interpretation of ...

A federal judge previously ruled that Universal Music and Sony/ATV had to be "all in" or "all out" By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The possibility of revolution in the music industry ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government lost a fight with music licensing giant BMI on Friday over whether it needed to change how it collects royalties for music. The Justice Department had said in ...

Music rights organization BMI scored a critical legal win on Tuesday when a federal appeals court rejected the Department of Justice's argument over how songs are licensed. The fight between Nashville ...

Songwriters and music publishers could land their second landmark victory under President Donald Trump's administration, if the U.S. Department of Justice sunsets the federal consent decrees that ...

The Justice Department sent an earthquake rumbling through the music industry Thursday morning, even as it insisted that it wasn’t changing a thing. After a two-year review, the department’s antitrust ...