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It's just a really accommodating radio station that always plays your requests, no?


Well, now we're getting into the question of what the intent is behind having different pricing and licensing for broadcast and distribution of recordings.


How are jukeboxes licensed?


Guessing that would fall under "performance" as well, but each jukebox would be separately licensed. In the case of something like Spotify, it's n jukeboxes, where n is the number of total users. Of course, that's absurd, since most Spotify accounts are listened to a single user.

I think the reality is that over 20 years after the development of Real Player, we still don't have a good legal framework to discuss streaming.




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