Your Inside Track

Don Franzen and Judith Finell are Co-Editors of Your Inside Track, a newsletter that shares new developments in music and copyright, including trial results, deals, legislation, and technology impacting protections for intellectual property. Your Inside Track examines these through combined lenses of musicology and law, targeting game-changing decisions, settlements, and other news impacting the music industry and its content creators.

Whenever new technologies are developed within the recording, publication, media, or broadcast industries, disputes invariably arise presenting share new developments in music copyright, including trial results, deals, legislation, and technology impacting protections for intellectual property.

This newsletter examines these through combined lenses of musicology and law and targets game-changing decisions, settlements, and other news impacting the music industry and its content creators challenges not yet considered or addressed.

Today, we are faced with AI-created music, boom sales of legacy music catalogs, sharing of music over social and streaming platforms, and new capacities at replicating and copying from pre-existing musical works and recordings – with and without permission.