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The Justice Department will review 73-year-old music royalties rules

04
Jun
2014

The Justice Department will review the rules that determine how much services like Pandora and Google Music must pay to license music, the start of a process that could make those sites cheaper or more expensive for customers. Meanwhile, ASCAP and BMI, the two major licensing groups that dominate the industry, say that rules written in 1941 restrict their ability to collect fair rates for digital services. ASCAP and BMI collect about $2 billion in royalties a year. The music industry is happy about the review

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