Did you know that there are currently more than 800 children in foster care in Oakland County alone? Being moved from placement to placement while waiting to find their forever home and family is tough enough, but to top it off children in foster care are typically given only a trash bag in which to put their belongings.

To help make these moves a little easier, the members of the Oakland County Bar Association’s (OCBA) Juvenile Law Committee have launched their “DreamPacks” program. DreamPacks are duffle bags that can be purchased from our Amazon.com Wish List. The bags are delivered to the OCBA and the Lawyer-Guardians Ad Litem appointed to represent Oakland County children in foster care will deliver them so these kids don’t have keep their stuff in trash bags anymore!

Please consider clicking this link, http://bit.ly/DreamPacks, and purchasing a DreamPack. It is the hope of the Juvenile Law Committee that we will be able to give a little dignity all of our Oakland County children in the foster care system.

The record industry just won a huge settlement from SIRIUSXM in its suit for the satellite radio company’s use of recordings created before 1972. SIRIUSXM will pay $210 million to plaintiffs ABKCO MUSIC & RECORDS, CAPITOL RECORDS, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP and WARNER MUSIC GROUP for its use of recordings from before 1972 after settling the case of CAPITOL RECORDS LLC et al vs SIRIUSXM RADIO INC.

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Taylor Swift has Apple changing its tune.

Hours after the pop superstar criticized the giant tech company in an open letter posted online, Apple announced Sunday that it will pay royalties to artists and record labels for music played during a free, three-month trial of its new streaming music service.

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What do you think and why?

James Taylor is OK with the booming streaming music business, but he believes artists deserve 50 percent of the profits.

“If someone’s going to be making money off of my recorded music, I think that I should be getting half of that money that they’re making because I’m the one who generated the product,” Taylor said in a recent interview. “What I’d like to see about Spotify is how much money is the company making relative to what the artist is making? For every dollar they take in, they should be giving 50 cents to the people who actually recorded the music.”

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In the two months since Congressmen JERROLD NADLER (D-NY) and MARSHA BLACKBURN (R-TN) introduced the bipartisan legislation, “The Fair Play Fair Pay Act” (NET NEWS, 4/13), the NAB revived its LOCAL RADIO FREEDOM ACT (NET NEWS, 5/21), a resolution that has attracted 191 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and 16 in the Senate.

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It’s the DETROIT TIGERS’ turn to open radio rights up for bidding, and the DETROIT NEWS reports that the team, owned by LITTLE CAESAR’S PIZZA founder MIKE ILITCH’s ILITCH HOLDINGS and currently heard on CBS RADIO Sports WXYT-F (97.1 THE TICKET) and Sports WXYT-A (CBS SPORTS RADIO 1270)/DETROIT, is talking to three broadcast groups about a new deal, including CBS.

The DETROIT NEWS reports that the TIGERS have opened talks with CUMULUS MEDIA about a possible return to former longtime radio home News-Talk WJR-A, and will also talk to GREATER MEDIA, which owns Sports WMGC (DETROIT SPORTS 105.1), Rock WRIF and Classic Rock WCSX in the market. ILITCH also owns the NHL’s DETROIT RED WINGS, also heard on THE TICKET.

See more at: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/141401/detroit-tigers-open-talks-on-new-radio-deal#sthash.TR2ZmniV.eJmHVJmu.dpuf