Regulators want to clear up uncertainty about who gets paid streaming royalties when songwriters take back their music rights – a trickier question than it sounds.
Photographer Robert Barbera had claimed that Cyrus reposted his 2020 image without a license or permission.
Will the case make "countless" works illegal? Or effectively make copyright law meaningless? The high court heard both arguments.
A court ruled that Wolfgang's infringed copyrights – but also refused an injunction and awarded only a tiny fraction of the damages that publishers wanted.
The owners of Yout.com sued the RIAA to prove that the service was legal, but a judge sided with the music industry's interpretation of the law.
