The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, filed 21 separate copyright infringement lawsuits against restaurants, bars and nightclubs in 13 states, officials for the music ...

When Amazon.com announced its plan to open a digital music store to sell MP3s, you had to really work to get excited about it. It’s hard to think of a press release that would be less surprising. At ...

The estate of Melvin Noble Jr., known professionally as Mo3, has emerged victorious in a significant copyright dispute, securing sole ownership of the late rapper’s music catalog. On April 28, 2025, a ...

It’s more than a decade since Kate Bush last performed live — and yet the enigmatic star is still a cultural icon, with her music attracting a whole new audience over the past few years through huge ...

Everyone can be certain, but not everyone can be right. The music industry is currently suffering from an abundance of the former, as warring factions debate a potential change to the core business ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

It’s hard to think of a more brain-deadening topic than the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board’s proceedings over the rates for music streaming. But deep in the dense ...

The European Union has fined Apple €1.84 billion (just under $2 billion) for breaching antitrust rules in the market for music streaming services on its mobile platform, iOS. The penalty is focused on ...

What we use to listen to music can often be as memorable as what we’re actually listening to. Just as artists, trends, and styles have cycled through culture—and the pages of Pitchfork—since the site ...