US broadcasters hit back at government intervention in Global Music Rights case

America’s National Association Of Broadcasters has hit out at the US Department Of Justice’s recent intervention in the ongoing dispute between boutique collecting society Global Music Rights and the Radio Music License Committee. GMR is the newish performing rights organisation founded by veteran artist manager Irving Azoff which represents a small group of accomplished songwriters in the collective licensing domain. It competes with the bigger American collecting societies BMI and ASCAP as well as SESAC, all of which represent the performing rights in their members’ songs.