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The Eminem track “Lose Yourself” featured in the soundtrack to a video shown privately to launch the new Audi A6 Avant. The usage angered the rapper, who had licensed Chrysler…

Word on the street in Fitzrovia is that the American Federation of Musicians is mad at some UK ad agencies. Their beef is over UK airings of ads with soundtracks…

In a landmark vote, Euro MPs recently approved a European Commission proposal to extend the term of copyright protection for sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. Relevant to adland?…

The IPA and the Musicians’ Union have agreed an updated form of agreement between an ad agency and musicians retained to record music for TV, radio and cinema advertising. Carla…

“Style, attract, play” by “Shocka featuring Honeyshot” was getting good airplay from DJs until it turned out that the band and track were created by Saatchi & Saatchi for Procter…

Br@ndlegal’s Lieve Jansen demonstrates her entertainment law expertise and expands still more our Frequently Asked Questions   Use of music in advertisements What rights need to be cleared? In the…

Woody Guthrie’s 1961 song I am the way as adapted by Loudon Wainwright III in 1973 was based on a central idea of Jesus travelling around attracting bad luck by…

Former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham issued proceedings claiming that the Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony megahit infringed his copyright in a 1963 recording of The Last Time by the Andrew…