INTRODUCTION
Music is bursting with creation. In today’s digital age of music, there is a never-ending flow of new songs, remixes, and compilations, whether it comes from a widespread streaming platform like Spotify or a hub for independent artists like SoundCloud. Seemingly, anyone with a simple, cognizable musical idea can utilize any sound-mixing computer application to create a new work or remix an old one and upload it to various music platforms all in a matter of days – even hours. With such ease and frequency of musical creation, originality becomes an increasingly difficult objective to achieve. The more musical works being made or composed, the higher the likelihood that components and elements of each track will begin to overlap with others, whether intentionally or unintentionally. With so many new musical works being produced, adequate copyright protection and enforcement is needed to prevent unauthorized individuals from inappropriately using an artist’s creation as a whole or its copyrightable elements …
Provenzano, Luca, A Remedy for Every Melody: The Procedural Positives and Negatives of the Copyright Claims Board and Why This New Tribunal Will Benefit Music Copyright Holders, Seton Hall Law Review, volume 53, issue 2, article 6 (2022). Published online 28 November 2022.
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