Music modernization bill clears another hurdle in Congress

The way music is licensed and songwriters are compensated for the digital age will be undergoing big changes under a bill making its way through Congress.The Senate cleared a bill late Tuesday that creates a new independent entity that will license songs to companies that play music online. The nonprofit collective will then pay songwriters, including those who wrote pre-1970s classics before music copyrights protected their work.Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander championed the bill and