Copyright - Warner Music UK Ltd and Others v TuneIn Inc, - The Order
Smartphones Author Senado Federal Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikipedia Smartphone Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Birss) Warner Music UK Ltd and another v Tunein Inc [2019] EWHC 3374 (Ch) (18 Dec 2019) The claimants, and the groups they represent, own or hold the exclusive licences to copyright in sound recordings of music. Together, they account for more than half the market for digital sales of recorded music in the UK and about 43% globally. If a radio station wishes to play a record in the claimant's repertoire it needs a licence from the claimant which it can obtain directly from one of the claimants or indirectly from a collecting society. As most radio stations broadcast primarily to listeners who can receive their radio signals those licences tend to be restricted to the country in which they are located. It is now possible for radio stations to broadcast over the internet. Some stations such a...