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Comment: ASCAP-BMI effort to end US DOJ-mandated music licensing process draws criticism from licensees (correct*)

By Max Fillion ( August 20, 2019, 00:57 GMT | Comment) -- Two of the US’s biggest music license holders are pushing the Justice Department to terminate a 78-year-old settlement that dictates the way music performance license agreements are negotiated. The groups — the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and Broadcast Music Inc. — say the composition of music licensees has changed in recent decades, necessitating new “free market” licensing free of behavioral commitments to the DOJ.Two of the US's biggest music license holders are pushing the Justice Department to terminate a 78-year-old settlement that dictates the way music performance license agreements are negotiated. The groups — the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, or ASCAP, and Broadcast Music Inc., or BMI — say the composition of music licensees has changed in recent decades, necessitating new “free market” licensing free of behavioral commitments to the DOJ....

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