Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech business and politics.

I'm Dan for Mac. On today's show, Apple CEO Tim Cook wants the government to regulate privacy and why Toys R Us might be returning to a strip mall near you.

But first, saving music, or at least letting us continue to stream it easily. Last month,

Congress passed something called the Music Modernization Act, and it's now sitting on President

Trump's desk, awaiting a signature that could come any minute. Once signed, this would become

the most significant update to music copyright laws since 2006. And yeah, I know,

that sounds super boring, but it might be the thing that not only lets the music market survive,

but thrive. So here's what you need to know. For starters, almost everyone is on board.

Musicians like it because a lot of them will get a bigger cut of copyright revenue. And

there'll also be some people who currently don't get paid, who now will be paid.

Streaming services like it because it's going to kind of give them a blanket license for songs, rather than having to buy them one by one or just use them and hope you don't get sued.

Plus, they seem to look like good guys to artists, which is always a benefit.

Maybe you can have relationships with the artists and get them in your commercials.

Finally, the labels like it really just because it makes their lives easier and because it could

maybe even increase the number of overall streaming services. There could be some new

startups that arise without needing the big money backing of a company like

Apple or Amazon. The bottom line here is this seems to be a bipartisan win, win, win, which is not

something we see very often when it comes to Washington, D.C., let alone D.C.'s dealings with big tech.

Maybe this is a lesson and could serve as a model for all the other problems that are coming

down the pipe.

In 15 seconds, we'll be joined on this and go deeper with Axios media reporter Sarah

Fisher.

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