Blog: Hypebot

A two-year legal battle between the Radio Music License Committee and ASCAP re: royalties paid on an annual basis has been settled. The new agreement scales back payments by 3%, which will lighten ASCAP's coffers by $8OM in 2012. GOP candidate Newt Gingrich found himself running afoul of the music biz when he received a cease and desist notice from Canadian music publisher Third Side Music publishing who objected to his use of How You Like Me Know? [...]