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The royalty issue to be upended? - jazzboCR - 23-02-2014
Apparently so. The 2 main Performance Rights Organizations BMI and ASCAP are operating in an analogue manner in a digital world, and that may be due for severe modification. This should be of interest to anyone writing, performing, distributing or otherwise using recorded music. Here's a NYTimes article on it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/business/media/pandora-suit-may-upend-century-old-royalty-plan.html
Mentioned in passing is another, much smaller PRO--SESAC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SESAC