Public Knowledge Urges DOJ to Hold Off Altering Music Consent Decrees

DOJ's reviewing ASCAP and BMI consent decrees (see 1906050060) nearly five years later “is inexplicable in its timing or reason,” Public Knowledge Policy Counsel Meredith Rose said Wednesday. Less than one year from passage of the Music Modernization Act, which presumed the decrees will remain, Justice should “refrain from sweeping changes to the current model” until a new system is in place, she said.