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Our nation is mourning the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and celebrating her legacy. Her life story is nothing short of heroic — overcoming discrimination to become one of only nine women in her Harvard Law School class of over 500, building a ground-breaking legal career in spite of pervasive sexism and prejudice, and rising to become one of the most influential Supreme Court justices of her era. It is not often that Supreme Court justices become lead characters in movies, Halloween costumes, “Saturday Night Live” characters, or the inspiration for hip-hop lyrics. Justice Ginsburg was more than an inspiration. She was an icon.

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October 4, 2020 • 4:21 pm 0

Librarian of Congress Appoints Shira Perlmutter Register of Copyrights | Library of Congress

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced her selection of Shira Perlmutter as the 14th Register of Copyrights.

“I am pleased to announce that Shira Perlmutter will serve as the 14th United States Register of Copyrights,” said Hayden. “Shira brings to this role a deep knowledge of domestic and international copyright law and policy and a background in negotiating international intellectual property agreements. She has experience working with a wide range of stakeholders and finding common ground on complex issuues

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September 22, 2020 • 6:56 am 0

U.S. Copyright Office Issues Two Interim Rules and One Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Related to the Music Modernization Act

Pursuant to the Musical Works Modernization Act, Title I of the Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (MMA), the Copyright Office has issued two interim rules and one notice of proposed rulemaking.

The MMA directs the Office to adopt a number of regulations to govern the new blanket licensing regime, including regulations regarding notices of license, notices of nonblanket activity, usage reports and adjustments, information to be included in the public musical works database, database usability, and interoperability and usage restrictions.

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September 14, 2020 • 8:44 am 0

RIAA Releases 2020 Mid-Year Data on U.S. Consumer Listening and Recorded Music Revenues

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today released its mid-year 2020 report showing growth in paid subscription streaming more than offsetting revenue declines in other areas of the U.S. recorded music market, and detailing ways the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the market for music.

Among the key findings, total first-half 2020 revenues from recorded music in the U.S. increased 5.6% to $5.7 billion. Paid streaming subscriptions continued to drive the growth as the number of paid subscriptions increased by 24% to more than 72 million on average, growing subscription streaming revenues for first-half 2020 by 14% versus first-half 2019. At the same time, with advertising markets slowing across the economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, growth in ad-supported streaming revenues slowed dramatically. Physical sales, including vinyl albums and compact discs, were also affected by the pandemic and fell 23%.

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