During the last few decades, the internet and digital technology have fundamentally changed the global music industry. As a consequence, new companies and novel business models have emerged. Spotify, one of the new players in the music industry, has expanded its business activities and grown to...

Digitization has facilitated the emergence of large distribution platforms downstream from traditionally powerful suppliers. Digital platforms can carry many suppliers' products, test the products' consumer appeal, and choose which products to promote, potentially shifting power from the...

Trademarks on recordings are routinely used to ensure the accuracy of identifying information that music consumers may care about. Yet under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., the federal trademark statute is not concerned with the...