“Alexa, are we paying music royalties?" It’s a question that Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos might have wanted to ask last week, when he testified in front of a U.S.
House of Representatives antitrust subcommittee, along with the chief executives of Apple, Google and Facebook. The subject of the hearing was competition in the technology business -- a topic that’s been heating up in Washington D.C.
over the last few years. But Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) took the opportunity to throw in a question about music licensing on Twitch, which Amazon bought in 2014 for almost a billion dollars and has become an important platform for livestreaming during the coronavirus pandemic. “My understanding is that Twitch allows users to stream music but
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