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Pandora Wants Radio Stations To Pay For Music, Too

7/14/2009

Suraj.sun sends along an Ars writeup of the lobbying Pandora is doing now that it has secured its future, royalties-wise. Some might think it odd that Pandora is contemplation in on the side of the record labels in their fight to get radio stations to pay more for the music they broadcast. "US radio stations don't pay performers and producers for the music they play, but the recording traffic
notes:the crew is the movie line and the business is the telly* direction hopes to change that with a new defray rights bill in Congress. Webcaster Pandora has jumped into the fray on the side of the artists and labels, asking why radio gets a free ride when Pandora does not. ... With revenues from laugh soundtrack music sales declining, rights-holders have turned their eyes in recent years to popular US radio, which currently pays songwriters (but not performers or record labels)... With its own future secure for the next few years, Pandora is now turning its heedfulness to the public carrying out debate here in the US, saying that the issue is a simple matter of fairness: why should webcasters have to pay more for music than usual

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