Major music groups continue push to decouple radio and audio streamers

Public relations campaign against Online Streaming Act launches By Ahmad Hathout Two music organizations have sent a letter to the CRTC disagreeing with what they say is an attempt to apply radio-like regulation to audio streaming services. Music Canada, which represents major record labels like Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music, and the Digital Media Association (DiMA), a trade group representing the likes of Amazon, Apple, Spotify, and Google’s Youtube, said they were part of CRTC-hosted engagement sessions from September 11 to 18. They said they were then encouraged to write to the regulator any thoughts and clarifications following...