Legacy Artists File Brief in Lawsuit Against Pandora Over Pre-'72 Recordings
Carole King, Beatles and Grateful Dead companies submit an amicus document in a case about pre-1972 sound recordings as Congress prepares to debate legislation on the issue. A veritable supergroup’s worth of sixties musicians on Friday (Jan. 12) filed an amicus brief in a California lawsuit against Pandora for its use of sound recordings made before 1972, and thus not covered by federal law. Although the issue in the case -- originally brought by Flo & Eddie, Inc., which owns
