Chris Castle, an entertainment lawyer who was part of the recent PFF seminar on The Role of Music Licensing in the Digital Age examines the RIAA/XM/Inno radio dispute.

He is gloomy (or, given his perspective, optimistic) about XM's prospects of winning the litigation, and, given the heavy penalties of copyright law, the impact on XM could be serious.

He prays the matter settles, as do I. These companies all need each other, and they should be able to craft business arrangements that reflect their respective capacities to contribute to the music biz.