Performance Rights Act

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• Reps. Conaway and Green: Champions of Radio

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 119
  There is a discussion of the Performance Rights Act (PRA) scheduled for November 17 on Capitol Hill.  Among the invited participants are National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President/CEO Gordon Smith and Joint Board Chair/Commonwealth Broadcasting President/CEO Steve Newberry, as well as representatives of ...
  1 week ago

• Local Radio Freeedom Act: You’ve Got Mail!

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 119
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were the recipients of a letter recently. It was handcrafted by Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and John Barrasso (R-WY), co-sponsors of the Senate version of the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA). The LRFA is a response to the Performance ...
  3 weeks ago

• Its ALIVE!!! Performance Rights Bill Approved By Senate Committee

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 124
  But the odds are still against PRA enactment The American public is seriously into zombies just now – how else to account for the fact that Zombieland took in some $25 million during its first weekend, and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has spent considerable time on many best seller lists? So we should ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Judiciary Committee fails again. Gives thumbs up to RIAA “Bailout” Performance Tax

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 584
  This is pretty much disgusting and makes me actually lean towards hating any label or collection agency. If you’ve been out of the loop, the RIAA’s Radio Performance tax is currently the biggest scam this side of hell. Remember in the good ‘ol days when new artists and labels would “beg” (by way of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Broadcast Performance Royalty - With Issues Yet to Resolve

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 506
  The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the bill to impose a performance royalty (or the "performance tax" as the NAB had called it) on radio broadcasters for the public performance of sound recordings on their over-the-air stations.  As was the case in the House of Representatives when its Judiciary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Starving artists lobby Feinstein

  
  HALFWAY TO CONCORD — Authority: 507
  Tim Westergren, former musician and now president of the popular online music service Pandora writes: The radio royalty system as it stands today is fundamentally unfair both to Internet radio services like Pandora, which pay far higher royalties than other forms of radio and to performing musicians, who receive no ...
  4 weeks ago

• Corporate Radio Gasps for Air as Record Labels Come for Blood

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 423
  Corporate radio and mainstream record labels have long enjoyed a seemingly symbiotic relationship that serves their mutual interests in the music industry–making money. Labels provide stations nationwide with the records of up-and-coming artists, and radio stations turn those artists, like Britney Spears and John ...
  4 weeks ago

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