Part Two of Two: The Situation in the USA - An in-depth look at U.S. live performance royalty fees, ASCAP/BMI Consent Decrees, and why many songwriters still aren’t fully paid.

Part One (of Two): The Situation in the UK and Europe - Amanda Harcourt reveals why UK & EU songwriters miss out on live royalties, exposing PRS practices and systemic gaps in music rights.

How Can We Reward the Talent When Their Creations Are Used in AI-Generated Works?

By Amanda Harcourt, Blue Highway Advisory Lead: International Copyright, Contracts and Rights Administration Where Facts?  Journalism, Politics, Facts, Justice. Entering into 2025 and a new US presidency, Meta has followed Musk’s X and announced the removal of the fact-checking safety protocols from its Facebook, Instagram and Threads feeds in the United States.  Despite pushback from civil liberties groups, the move was justified by Meta’s Press Senior Counsel as working in

The scattershot, sometimes gleefully unpredictable publishing schedule of Blue Highway Advisory’s signature newsletter continues apace, as the world at large, and most especially the many of us in the strategic advisory sector, ponder what the spheres of news, law, politics, culture and human interaction will look and feel like through the course of the next four or more years.   We’ll have more to say about all of these enormously important subjects in due course. (And, just

Blue Highway Advisory's 2024 UK General Election Briefing for Clients, Partners and Followers Introduction   Hot on the heels, as it were, of the second publishing of the Blue Highway Beacon just last week comes Beacon issue #3, our earlier-previewed and specifically drafted UK General Election briefing. We have no intention of taxing your mailboxes week-in, week-out, but with the election looming Thursday this week, (and with observers on the Western side of Atlantic stockin