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Global Music Rights has filed a motion to disallow what it calls an "intrusion" by the National Assn. of Broadcasters over the NAB's friend of the court brief on behalf of the Radio Music Licensing Committee.

Whitney Houston is set to be honored for her storied career.

The 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are officially out, and they include big names from the worlds of pop and hip-hop. Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is set to be inducted as is pop icon Whitney Houston. They join rock acts The Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, and T. Rex, as well as industry figures Irving Azoff and Jon Landau.

Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and T.Rex are the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2020 inductees, the organization announced this morning. Receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which is essentially for non-performing professionals, are longtime Bruce Springsteen manager and former music critic Jon Landau and veteran Eagles manager and multifaceted executive Irving Azoff.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice sided with super-manager Irving Azoff's performing rights organization, Global Music Rights (GMR), in a battle with the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) over how much money radio stations owe songwriters. Now, the RMLC is essentially telling the DOJ to buzz off.  In court documents filed Dec. 18 and re