In the increasingly high-stakes game of attracting the ears of the listening public during the summer season, Pandora is the latest to weigh in with its picks.
Pandora Predicts 2017’s Songs of the Summer
Variety
Roy Trakin
Live concerts are music tech’s next frontier
VentureBeat
Jaja Liao
With recent speculation about Spotify soon going public (without an IPO) and the belated launch of Pandora Premium, the music streaming space is increasingly nearing both maturity and saturation.
Pandora now supports paying artists for older songs
Tennessean
Nate Rau
Long viewed as somewhat of an antagonist to record labels, digital music service Pandora has found common ground with them on policy issues in recent months.
Pandora now supports paying artists for older songs
Tennessean
Nate Rau
Pandora announced last year that it supports paying artists of pre-1972 songs their digital royalties and has made closing the loophole one of its 2017 policy priorities.
U.S. Trade Rep Condemns Stream Ripping, Calls Out Alibaba in New ‘Notorious Markets’ Report
Billboard
Colin Stutz
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Wednesday (Dec. 21) released its annual “notorious markets” report listing the online and physical markets that most threaten America’s creative industries and in it specifically highlighted the “emerging trend” of stream ripping.
President Obama signs nationwide ticket-bot ban into law
Engadget
Billy Steele
New York already passed legislation banning the use of ticket buying bots, but President Obama has just made the ban a nationwide law. Today, the president signed the “Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016” which makes it illegal to use software to purchase tickets to popular events.
A Music Economy That Works For Everyone
Forbes
Steve Bene, General Counsel, Pandora
The way we listen to music is changing fast, and the business of music is struggling to keep up. Constantly shifting business models affect performers and songwriters, producers and publishers, promoters and live music venues. As streaming music has taken hold in the music ecosystem, a larger audience is listening to more music by more…
What to Expect at Today’s Trump-tech Roundtable
Politico
Li Zhou
Pandora exec calls for changes in music copyright protections: Steve Bene, the streaming company’s general counsel, says that certain policies in the music industry need to be updated to ensure artists’ work is clearly protected. “A prime example … is the way the law treats heritage artists. For more than four decades, recordings by musical greats like…
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The Hill
Ali Breland
“We believe in a music economy that works for everyone — artists and fans, music venues and promoters,” said Katie Peters, Pandora’s director of government relations. Pandora owns Ticketfly, a platform that allows first party vendors to sell tickets to consumers. “And we applaud final passage of the BOTS Act as an excellent first step…
NY High Court Axes Pre-1972 Song Case Against Sirius
Law 360
Bill Donahue
New York’s highest appeals court ruled Tuesday that radio companies like SiriusXM need not pay to play so-called pre-1972 recordings over the air, a huge reversal in a years-long effort by record labels and artists to win new royalties from the old tracks.