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Title: Pandora reaches $90M settlement to continue playing pre-1972 music Post by: HCK on October 23, 2015, 03:00:23 pm Pandora reaches $90M settlement to continue playing pre-1972 music
While revealing its Q3 earnings earlier today, Pandora announced that it will pay $90 million to labels in royalties as a settlement to play music released prior to 1972. Federal copyright laws didn’t start protecting sound recordings until 1972, meaning that copyrights of clips released prior to then are governed by state laws (via WSJ). Pandora stopped […]<img alt="" border="0" src="(http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=404339&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Source: Pandora reaches $90M settlement to continue playing pre-1972 music (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/gRkrV87WpyE/) |