by publishers working through performance rights organizations like ASCAP and BMI, but Azoff is spearheading a new venture, Global Music Rights (GMR), which has managed to sign up about 42 songwriters, including Smokey Robinson and Chris Cornell, who collectively have published about 20,000 songs...
Azoff hasinformed YouTubethat it lacks performance rights for these 20,000 songs — including ones bySmokey Robinson,Chris Cornell, and George and Ira Gershwin. Since November, when YouTube announced the coming launch of a subscription service to compete with Spotify and Pandora, Az...