 Online licensing snags may cost music industry its future ·Jan 18, 10:08 AM From NewStatesman (UK): The future of music radio lies online, once there’s a way to pay artists fairly…
“Those to whom this sounds too good to be true will not be surprised that personalised internet radio has recently found itself in legal hot water. On 15 January, Pandora, “Last.fm, the UK’s personalised internet radio station, which last year sold for a reported £142m, is confident that it will continue to be able to offer its service in the UK… “Radio has always been a way to expose listeners to new music they might like to buy, and personalised internet radio does this more efficiently and on a much larger scale… for what are the millions of illicit peer-to-peer file-sharers, but a huge potential market? Internet users are showing the industry how they want their music in the digital age. “Licensing songs for broadcast on analogue radio probably looked incredibly complicated before Read this editorial from Open Rights Group executive director Becky Hogge in NewStatesman, here. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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“When I think about the future of radio, I don’t think about 
a US-based personalised internet radio station, closed down its service to UK customers, having been unable to negotiate how to pay musicians a proportion of its profits [see 
anybody started doing it. Isn’t it time that the industry started responding to internet music fans, rather than fighting them?”
