Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pandora, and Google Coordinated to Remove Irving Azoff’s GMR f
Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pandora, and Google Coordinated to Remove Irving Azoff’s GMR from the Latest Mechanical Rate-Setting Proceedings, Legal Documents Reveal
The seemingly mundane deliberations over future mechanical royalty rates in the US are starting to feel like a Verdi opera — with colorful industry titan Irving Azoff and his Global Music Rights (GMR) playing an unexpected cameo role. But why are major streaming platforms so intent on removing GMR from the Phonorecords V rate-setting process?