GM Says Car Entertainment Systems Not Recording Devices

By Kelly Knaub (January 18, 2018, 9:49 PM EST) -- General Motors told a D.C. federal court Wednesday that its in-vehicle entertainment systems don't qualify as digital recording devices that would require it to pay royalties for songs copied onto the systems' hard drives, with the Alliance of Artists and Recording Cos. responding that "the facts on the record" say otherwise....

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