If you looked around the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, you would have seen Al Gore and Tim Cook over on the left, Joan Collins and Jane Fonda on the right, and in the middle Taylor Swift dancing, arms aloft, with two-thirds of the Haim sisters. But this year the growing tension over the economics behind online music spilled over into the festivities.
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Grammys, presented its president’s merit award at the party to Martin N. Bandier, chairman of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, whose catalog of millions of songs has Motown and Beatles classics as well as current hits by Lady Gaga and Iggy Azalea.
And while Mr. Bandier is usually one of the industry’s most colorful and boastful characters — there’s no shortage of photographs of him grinning with a cigar in his mouth — he came out with sharp words in defense of music publishing, the side of the business that deals with copyrights for songwriting.
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