Mediagazer: SoundExchange Launches Campaign for Royalties on Pre-1972 Recordings (Glenn Peoples/Billboard)

1:40 PM ET, May 29, 2014

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SoundExchange Launches Campaign for Royalties on Pre-1972 Recordings — Listen to the Stooges' “Search and Destroy” from the 1973 album “Raw Power” on Pandora and the band will receive a small royalty. But listen to “Down on the Street,” from the “Funhouse” album released three years earlier, and the band won't be paid.

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