Shane Media's Lee Logan is a smart fellow. After I wrote about the ingrates at the record labels who are trying to get radio's performance royalty exemption revoked, he contacted me with a genius idea.
Pay it.
That's right, pay the labels their extra tax -- the rights fee.
Oh, but it gets much better that. Here's Lee's premise:
Let
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