No Easy Answer On Performance Rights For Pre-'72 Records

By Bill Donahue (July 21, 2014, 8:52 PM EDT) -- Digital radio services Sirius XM and Pandora are duking it out with musical artists and the record labels in courts across the country over whether or not they need to pay to play sound recordings from prior to 1972. Experts say that's an extremely tough question — with no easy answers....

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