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Payola Links

By Marty Schwimmer on July 26, 2005
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NY Attorney General press release on settlement of payola charges with Song BMG.

FCC Regulations requiring disclosure when matter has been broadcast in exchange for payment.

New Yorker article from last year describing ‘spot buys,’ whereby record companies purchase radio spots and play singles during the spot.

Wikipedia discussion of payola scandal of the 50’s.

 

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Martin Schwimmer is a director and a founding partner of the U.S. office of Stobbs, an international IP law boutique, headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.

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