Group to fight for stepped up music royalties
Don Day June 13th, 2007
A coalition of musical acts and music industry organizations will launch an effort today to push for increased compensation by AM and FM radio stations. Under current rules, radio broadcasters only pay a royalty to songwriters — the actual performer sees no cash (the idea being that radio stations help fuel sales of songs through airplay). That fact has come under fire in the heated debate over Internet radio royalties, as recent rulings could force net-casters to pay royalties on songs. According to radio industry site AllAccess, a wide variety of artists are on board for the musicFIRST campaign, including Christina Aguilera, Jimmy Buffett, Toby Keith, Patti Labelle, Jennifer Lopez and others.
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1. KC | June 14th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Greedy bastards! Sell more records. Sell more tickets! They have radio over the barrel and it’s too much to hope they fight this hard.
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