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Apple is planning to launch a free ad supported Pandora-like online music service in the first three months of 2013. Current negotiations with labels are focusing on differentiating features and how to share ad revenue. The talks could be completed next month according to Bloomberg.   Pandora and other online radio services operate under a […]

Pandora isn’t the only one trying to reduce its payments to musicians and songwriters.  Right now, in a federal courtroom in Philadelphia, a consortium of more than 10,000 traditional radio broadcasters is taking legal action to reduce payouts to songwriters and publishers. And they’re focusing their guns on the smallest performance rights collector, SESAC. Of course, […]