Late last week, the United States Copyright Office released a report recommending sweeping reforms to the existing music licensing system, which is a labyrinthine ...

US law provides two different types of copyright protection that apply when someone streams a song online. There's protection for the composer or songwriter, and there's a separate copyright for ...

As questions swirl about how artificial intelligence will impact the music business, the Copyright Office is trying to clarify how it will be treated under the law ...

Using DRM, copyright owners still have to encrypt ... For example, subscribers to some commercial online-music services are now given the option to send encrypted copies of songs to friends.