Last week, however, under Assistant Attorney General Renata Hesse (a former Wilson Sonsini attorney — Google’s law firm), the DOJ announced that, going forward, it intends to interpret the Consent Decrees to require ASCAP and BMI to only issue licenses for songs they control 100%, up-ending decades of custom and practice. The DOJ’s intention, presumably, is to make life easier for companies like Google, Apple, and Spotify. In doing so, DOJ has created an unworkable solution to a non-existent problem.
via @Savan_Kotecha: The DOJ deals a devastating blow to professional songwriters — Artist Rights Watch
The Trichordist 
This confuses me. Does the ruling mean that the PRO can only license songs that it has 100% of the rights to, or does it mean that it has to license songs that it doesn’t have all the rights to?