October 18, 2019
The Ninth Circuit wants a trial court to figure out whether the new Music Modernization Act spells defeat for a long-running lawsuit filed against internet radio giant Pandora over songs recorded before 1972.
January 01, 2018
California attorneys in 2018 will be closely watching big-ticket cases in the employment and intellectual property areas, including a $400 million design patent trial between Samsung and Apple, another Apple case that will test whether employees must be compensated for time spent in bag checks, and a high-profile fight over the rights of artists to exclusively control public performances of their pre-1972 song recordings. Here, Law360 looks at five major cases attorneys in California and elsewhere will be following closely.
July 05, 2017
Musicians from the folk rock band The Turtles fighting to secure millions of dollars in streaming royalties from Pandora for songs recorded before 1972 urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to reconsider its decision to ask the California Supreme Court to weigh in, citing new developments in the state's anti-SLAPP case law.
March 15, 2017
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday asked California's highest court to weigh in on whether radio services like Pandora Media Inc. must pay millions in new royalties to stream songs recorded before 1972.
September 10, 2015
A radio broadcasters group urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to overturn a finding that Pandora Media Inc. must face claims that it should pay to play pre-1972 songs, saying a ruling against the Internet radio service "would invite utter confusion" for analog stations as well.
September 03, 2015
Pandora Media Inc. fired the opening salvo at the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday in its effort to reverse a ruling that it must pay to play pre-1972 records, warning the appeals court that such a decision would create "an unworkable intellectual property regime" made of "zombie copyrights."