Pandora is about to settle and pay the major labels for playing pre-1972 recordings but not paying royalties for their broadcast, according to a story in the New York Post.
SiriusXM's Grandfathered Rates for Music Must End (Guest Post)
In the U.S. there is no performance right and thus no performance royalty payment for records when they are played on the radio or in movie theaters, stores, restaurants, hotels and bars. But when the digital radio format emerged, record labels managed to secure a performance right for those broadcasts.