For years, live music fans could stop in at Mad City Coffee in Columbia on a Friday or Saturday night and take in a set or two of rock, folk or improvisational jazz. The 2,000-square-foot ...

In November, KNKX published a story about live music licensing costs and received many reader questions. We set out to ...

Ever since operetta composer Victor Herbert sued Shanley’s restaurant in New York in 1917 to force it to pay for playing his song on a player-piano, songwriters and music publishers have depended on ...

Avoiding the need for a federal rate court to impose an interim music licensing fee schedule for radio stations until a final decision is made by the court, BMI and the Radio Music License Committee ...

Midnight Rodeo is facing a federal lawsuit for allegedly allowing performances of copyrighted music while failing to pay the necessary music licensing fees. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of ...

This is per Variety, which has been reporting for a few years now on Twitter’s drawn-out legal fight with the music business. See, the Elon Musk-owned social media company is the one major social ...