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Entertainment & Sports

Mar. 27, 2012

Lawyers grapple with interactive music royalties

Interactive music service Spotify predicts that in two years' time it will yield more revenue for the record industry than iTunes. Lawyers say even if that's true, it's hard to tell how much of that money will reach the artists.


By Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writer


At this month's annual South by Southwest music and media conference in Austin, Texas, so-called "interactive music" was the buzz. And one service in particular - Sweden's subscription-based Spotify, which entered the U.S. music market last July - touched off a lively discussion.


Napster co-founder Sean Parker - now a Spotify board member - predicted that in two years' time,...

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