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    Flowers for Whom? Music Investors, Copyright Standing, and the Answer Song Defense

    March 25, 2026By Monica Lopez

    In February 2023, Miley Cyrus (“Cyrus”) released “Flowers,” an anthem that spent eight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Shortly after, in September 2024, Tempo Music Investments, LLC, filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit alleging that “Flowers” copied melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements from Bruno […]

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    Beauty and the Bookless: Trading Library Cards for Copyright Infringement Problems

    November 12, 2024By Leyda Mujica

    Who needs Google when you have a library card—your all-access pass to a world of knowledge, mystery, and free Wi-Fi? Unfortunately, libraries are becoming more irrelevant each day with their outdated practices and loss of the public’s interest in physical books. Nowadays, everyone carries a Kindle e-reader or reads e-books on their phones. This has […]

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    Libraries Aren’t Dead Yet: How Second Circuit’s Holding in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive is Not Necessarily as Dire as it Seems

    September 23, 2024By Broderick Schwinghammer

      Last year, a surprising matter of copyright law made headlines in the case of Hatchette Book Group v. Internet Archive. Internet Archive is an expansive digital library that not only provides online access to books and other texts, but also catalogues internet websites and various other culturally relevant media for the public for research. […]

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