Civil Litigation,
Appellate Practice
Oct. 12, 2013
Pandora kicks down door to music licenses
A court recently ruled that ASCAP - which provides blanket licenses for music performance rights - can't strip down licenses for new media.
Donald M. Falk
Partner
Schaerr Jaffe LLP
Phone: (415) 562-4942
Fax: (650) 331-4530
Email: dfalk@schaerr-jaffe.com
UC Berkeley Boalt Hall
Donald is a partner in the firm's Supreme Court and appellate practice. He is based in Palo Alto.
The entertainment industry has had a rocky relationship with the Internet from the beginning. Antipiracy campaigns (like the successful actions against file-sharing services like Napster and Grokster) have attracted much press and legal attention. But services that seek to license music for legal distribution using new technologies also have encountered resistance.
For decades, broadcasters and others have relied on the blanket license terms available for music performance rights f...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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