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===Live music recordings===
In 2004, Clear Channel acquired a key patent in the process of producing [[Instant Live]] recordings, in which a live performance is recorded directly from the sound engineer's console during the show, and then rapidly burned on [[CD]] so that audience members can buy copies of the show as they are leaving the venue. This had been intended to provide additional revenue to the artist, venue, and promoter, as well as stifle the demand for unauthorized [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] concert recordings made by audience members. However, some media critics, as well as smaller business rivals, believed that Clear Channel was using the patent (on the process of adding cues to the beginning and ending of tracks ''during recording'', so that the concert is not burned as a single enormous track) to drive competitors out of business or force them to pay licensing fees, even if they do not use precisely the same process. The patent was transferred to [[Live Nation]] when [[Clear Channel Entertainment]] was spun off, but the patent was revoked on March 13, 2007,<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/03/12|date=March 13, 2007|title=EFF Kills Bogus Clear Channel Patent|publisher=[[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]|access-date=August 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909095922/https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/03/12|archive-date=September 9, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> after it was found that this patent infringed on a prior patent granted for [[Telex Communications|Telex]].