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The HRC’s 2017 Corporate Equality Index, released on Monday, found that 517 businesses/law firms out of 887 earned a 100 percent score based on criteria covering non-discrimination policies, benefits, accountability, a public commitment to LGBT equality and responsible citizenship.
Jimi Hendrix’s famous lyrics “and so castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually” perfectly describe the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s problems in the wake of rate court Judge Louis Stanton’s September decision to reject the DOJ’s interpretation of its consent decree with performance rights organization (PRO) Broadcast Music Inc.
Back in September, a judge ruled that fractional licensing is permitted under BMI’s anti-trust consent decree. The Department of Justice, which has taken the position that the consent decrees for both BMI and ASCAP require 100 percent licensing, has appealed that Second Circuit decision.
Pandora is setting ambitious workplace diversity goals that would set it apart from the vast majority of tech businesses.
Pandora CEO, Tim Westergren talks about how Pandora is gearing up to compete with Apple and Spotify in the competitive music streaming business. Tim describes how his company is taking more of a collaborative approach in Washington.
Pandora has announced a rebrand, including an updated “P” logo, which is meant to reflect the evolution underway at Pandora now, as it expands beyond radio to better compete with on-demand rivals like Spotify and Apple Music.
The report “Global Mobile Music Forecast 2010-2022” finds that despite a decline in full-track downloading segment, overall growth in streaming music, both paid and ad-funded free services, are driving the market growth.
PANDORA EXEC: NO PLANS TO SELL BROADCAST RADIO STATION — The internet radio giant isn’t looking to offload South Dakota FM station KXMZ, Pandora general counsel Steve Bene told Alex in a recent interview for C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” — shooting down reports from earlier this year that a strategy reevaluation called for such a move. Pandora purchased the…
In this paper, we study how the adoption of music streaming affects listening behavior. Using a unique panel data set of individual consumers’ listening histories across many digital music platforms, adoption of streaming leads to very large increases in quantity and diversity of consumption in the first months after adoption.
This paper analyses the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music.