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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 20, 2014

Pandora fights to hold on to current music licensing system

The online streaming giant wants to ensure that music publishers will continue to particpate in a 73-year-old way of licensing songs.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Even as the music industry hurtles toward the cusp of major structural changes, recent federal court filings indicate music streaming giant Pandora Music Inc. is trying its best to keep intact the same rules that have governed music licensing agencies in the U.S. for the last 73 years.


According to a letter recently made public, Pandora attorney Kenneth Steinthal of King & Spalding LLP in San Fra...

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