GroupM, the world’s largest advertising agency, will stop buying advertising space on more than 2,000 global sites said to offer pirated or unlicensed content.  GroupM… Read More no comments

With Apple, Google and Amazon now offering consumers in the United States “cloud based” storage and retrieval of music files, much is being written in… Read More no comments

A $50-million settlement has been approved in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against four Canadian record labels for unpaid royalties.  According to the original statement… Read More no comments

Warner Music Group has been purchased by Russian born billionaire Len Blavatnik of Access Industries.  The Russian-born billionaire for $ 3.3 billion, an acquisition which… Read More no comments

CMPA is very saddened by the untimely death of Ed Glinert, President of Casablanca Media Publishing, on May 21st, following a stroke.  Ed was a… Read More no comments

According to statistics released earlier this month by the Recording Industry Association of America, Internet and satellite radio music services like Pandora brought in more… Read More no comments

New Zealand has passed a law against online piracy which outlaws file-sharing and threatens users who breach copyright through illegal file-sharing with possible fines of… Read More no comments

A Liberal government will turn the page on five years of Conservative neglect and hostility towards arts and culture by strengthening this key sector of… Read More no comments

Canada’s recording artists could potentially lose a vitally important revenue stream depending on the outcome of the federal election, warns the Canadian Private Copying Collective… Read More no comments

A survey is being sent to the federal parties by the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA) in order to gauge where each stands on issues related to Canada’s… Read More no comments