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  • EU copyright law may force Google, Facebook to pay billions to music companies, publishers

    Facebook and Google could be forced to pay billions to publishers, music labels and filmmakers if a proposed copyright rule is formally adopted in Europe. The proposed copyright directive could upend the internet as we know it.

  • Google: Sorry professor, old Beethoven recordings on YouTube are copyrighted

    Imagine you are a teacher at a public school and you want to use a free recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in your classroom. An author of music textbooks and music theory professor looks for creative ways to develop teaching materials as Open Educational Resources so that everyone can share and learn from these important recordings.