The Justice Department will not move to terminate or modify the 80-year consent decrees that govern how most music is licensed after a review.Makan Delrahim, the chief of of the Antitrust Division, cited the lack of consensus among stakeholders in the industry as a reason for not moving to terminate the decrees, which govern ASCAP and BMI.
The DOJ’s review included a public workshop last summer, which featured input from a number of musical artists, along with songwriters and publishers.“We found that there was a lot of efficiencies that the blanket licenses, the collective rights organizations provide,” Delrahim said at a seminar on Friday at Vanderbilt University. “There was a lot of benefits to artists.
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