[a fool in paradise]

$210 million to the major record companies. How much goes to the lawyers and how many years now has SirusXM been doing this (non-payment)? It doesn't sound like much considering all of the "classic" formats on digital radio (big band, rock and roll, jazz, blues, country, pop, adult 'contemporary', showtunes, movie soundtracks, soul/R&B, on up to 'rock' including Woodstock and Led Zeppelin).

[Veggie Todd]

People pay to listen to the radio. Guglielmo Marconi is kicking himself for not thinking of that.

[catnipman]

Well, this means SiriusXM will now play nothing BUT cover-band versions now, not just post 1972. That way they just need to pay royalties on the songs themselves and not the recordings. Much cheaper that way, and apparently today’s youngsters don’t know the difference, anyway. I do, and when I found out what crap SiriusXM played, I dropped them after only a day and got my money back.

[chopperman]

...two years ago members of the 1960s band the Turtles, whose hits included only hit was “Happy Together”...

There, fixed it.

[Pontiac]

Copy rights and patents were never intended to last forever. Article 1 Section 8

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

The time limits on patents are severely (such as drugs) limited but the entertainment industry keeps getting money long after the artist and authors are long dead.

Anybody else see the finger prints of Liberal Politicians all over this.

[2CAVTrooper]

SirusXM doesn’t pay crap for royalties... The subscribers do which IMO is total BS since terrestrial radio doesn’t pay squat... In fact a lot of labels/bands pay for their crap to be played on the air. More airtime=more record sales=more money going to the greedy shyster record execs.

[Rufii]

Most of the music I listen to was recorded long before 1972.

[AlaskaErik]

I can’t believe people in this day and age listen to music that old.