It’s rare for a royalty clash between a media company and a major performing rights organization ever to make it into court. It’s even less common for one of those disputes to turn into a broad fight over licensing rules in the digital age.

But that’s what happened in Pandora Media Inc.’s rate-setting fight with the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers, culminating with a decision Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit—and a victory for Pandora’s lawyers at King & Spalding, Kenneth Steinthal and Jeffrey Bucholtz.

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