The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1.

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Prominent Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he was wrongly branded a convicted sex offender by Google’s AI Overview ...

Poison topped the US charts in late 1988 with a power ballad that singer Bret Michaels poured his broken heart into ...

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For years, Snopes has covered the origins and myths attached to classic holiday songs such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ...

Mariah Carey wins “All I Want for Christmas Is You” copyright lawsuit as court dismisses claims and orders plaintiffs to pay over $92,000 in sanctions ...

Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them.

The pro and anti sides have generally coalesced around two different arguments: one saying AI will leach humanity out of ...

A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

Young music lovers are trading streaming playlists for spinning records, fueling an unexpected resurgence in vinyl sales that's breathing new life into decades-old music stores.