Matthew Galin of the Foster firm in Chicago flew down to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday that iHeartRadio is a bootlegger and a pirate playing his clients’ songs without paying for them.
At an oral argument field trip to Emory University School of Law, the justices seemed a bit skeptical of Galin’s suggestion that broadcasting songs on the radio is legal and even good for the music industry, but streaming them on the internet is a crime that hurts the owners of the master copies by depriving them of record sales.
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