Last Thursday was a bad day for music
provider Pandora because several record labels according to News sources has
filed a lawsuit in which they says that the entertainment and music service
must pay royalties and fees for those song which are made before 1972. The labels
proposed allegation against Pandora that music streaming service violating the
state’s common-law of copyright protections by copy of older playings without
taking any permission. According to source Sony, Warner and Universal filed the
case in New York state court. There are lots of recordings which Pandora they
says playing without any permission including songs from major legend in Rock n
Roll between 1940 to early 70 from artist like Beatles, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan,
James Brown and Rolling stones.
The New York Times Says “Traditional radio
stations have a longstanding exemption from paying for recordings, although all
kinds of radio outlets — Internet, satellite and old-fashioned AM/FM — pay
separate songwriting royalties to music publishers. (In the music world’s
complex licensing structure, “on demand” services like Spotify and Rhapsody,
which let users pick exactly what songs to listen to, negotiate with record
companies directly for a different kind of license, and do not face the same
issue with pre-1972 recordings.)”
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| Pandora Shows Restricted in Counrties |
Companies are being sued because of
stealing and copying the technologies or innovations from each other like in
Apple-Samsung lawsuit, they sued Samsung to copying their iPhone design and rest is
left to court, Samsung represents Google to prove that they spend time to
actually develop the technology. If court finds anything wrong, it would cost a
huge amount to Pandora. Pandora they say they were pretty confidence in its officially
authorized. The law was these services must take license to use playing took
after 1972, so they pay millions for these songs.
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