17-09-2019 16:04 via sltrib.com

Letter: Lee should move to protect Utah’s music industry

On Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee is holding an antitrust hearing. In following what Utah learned from August’s Hatch Center symposium on music licensing, he must ask the Justice Department about its review of the music consent decrees that protect the industry from abuse.Decades ago, music publishers colluded into two institutions that license popular music. They controlled 90-percent of music back then, and they still do today.The Justice Department watched the music monopolies for anti-free mar
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