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Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:

    • 1: United States Copyright Office, "Copyright and the Music Marketplace" (February 2015), read pp. 1 - 11 original
    • 2: Future of Music Coalition, "Music and How the Money Flows: Interactive Streams" (March 10, 2015) original
    • 3: Future of Music Coalition, "Music and How the Money Flows: Digital Sales" (March 10, 2015) original
    • 4: FBT Productions, LLC v. Aftermath Records original
    • 5: Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Isidor Straus original
    • 6: Mirage Editions, Inc. v. Albuquerque A.R.T. Co. original
    • 7: Lee v. A.R.T. Company original
    • 8: Vernor v. Autodesk original
    • 9: Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L'anza Research International, Inc. original
    • 10: UMG v. Augusto, 628 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2011) original
    • 11: Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. original
    • 12: Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc. original
    • 13: Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the Harmonisation of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society (May 22, 2001) original
    • 14: Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs (April 23, 2009) original
    • 15: UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp., C-128/11, July 3, 2012 (ECJ) (digital distribution, exhaustion) original
    • 16: Nintendo Co. Ltd and Others v PC Box Srl and 9Net Srl, C-355/12, January 23, 2014 (ECJ) original
    • 17: Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp. original
    • 18: Rethink Music (an Initiative of Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship), "Fair Music: Transparency and Payment Flows in the Music Industry," Berklee College of Music (July 2015), skim all original
    • 19: Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship, "Open Music Initiative" original