Amazon, Google, Pandora Join Music Rights Group

Financial Times: Amazon, Google and Pandora and have joined forces with radio stations and other music distributors to push back against an effort by musicians, publishers and record labels to charge more for the use of their songs. The launch of MIC Coalition in Washington raises the stakes in a battle over music industry economics that companies such as Pandora and Spotify say threatens to put some of the most popular services of the streaming age out of business. “The next 24 months are pivotal for music.”