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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 24, 2014

Pandora tries to SLAPP down Turtles suit

The streaming music giant claims that sound recording copyright infringement lawsuit violates their First Amendment right to distribute public art.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Facing a closely watched lawsuit that assails it for stiffing scores of recording artists of their royalties, Pandora Music Inc. has fought back with a counterclaim that the allegations actually chill its right to freedom of speech.


Pandora's attorney Andrew Gass, an associate in Latham & Watkins LLP's San Francisco office, employed California's anti-Strategic Lawsuit Against Public P...

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