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Majority Support For Local Radio Freedom Act
WASHINGTON -- June 3, 2009: The Local Radio Freedom Act now has the backing of 220 members of the House, giving the anti-performance-royalties resolution majority support. The LRFA counters the Performance Rights Act, a bill that would for the first time force broadcast radio to pay performance royalties to record labels and artists.
The LRFA has been rapidly gaining support recently, with 27 more representatives signing on since the Performance Rights Act was approved by the House Judiciary Committee in mid-May. The Judiciary Committee is chaired by strong royalties proponent John Conyers (D-MI), who introduced the Performance Rights Act in the House. Conyers hosted a "town hall meeting" in Detroit yesterday where recording artists and radio made their cases for and against the royalty.
The Local Radio Freedom Act is a non-binding resolution, and even the support of a majority of the House does not -- in itself -- block the Performance Rights Act from being brought to a vote. Also, Local Radio Freedom Act supporters are not obligated to vote against the PRA. But this support for the LRFA may very well discourage royalties supporters from scheduling the PRA for a vote in the full House at this time.
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(1/31/2010 12:38:57 AM) D M if you are a DJ understand us songwriters are the people behind those hits you spinning. Radio station is not paying licensing fees to ASCAP or BMI robbering the songwriters and publishing. This not the white people the Performance Rights Act put pressure on Station to pay the licensing fee ASCAP and BMI went to congress about the issue. Obama adminstraction didn't have nothing to do with this blame ASCAP and BMI. |
| - Pernell Lancaster |
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(1/31/2010 12:25:32 AM) Whoever a songwriter register with ASCAP or BMI your time have come to get paid. So many people don't understand the Performance Rights Act this bill is a blessing for songwriters across the nation whose love being creative. All radio one stations are registered with ASCAP which means they are getting off our music and don't want to pay us a dime. 50 Cent record could receives 5,000 credit which are known as spins ASCAP then splits that 50% with the songwriter and the publisher. Every radio station have to pays a license fee of $3.50 to ASCAP per credit/spin. Radio One made over $15 Million in revenue last year in their radio division the numbers on their site is wrong. This bill put pressure on all radio station to pay the $3.50 to ASCAP for each spin RADIO ONE don't want to pay ASCAP nothing for songwriter or the publishing company. When they get paid for spinning the radio the only industry the pays is television. Listen out the $8.00 per spin the radio station is recieving. Avoid those service announcements from Catherine Hughes whose the CEO of Radio ONE, Inc. cause she don't want to loss money. Its not and black or white don't believe it black radio been stealing for years the other parent companies in the radio industry don't mind. Performance Right Act is not tax bill that goes to the government. Obtaining this money is ASCAP or BMI to pay the songwriter and the publishing company who register their song. |
| - Pernell Lancaster |
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(7/5/2009 10:03:51 PM) No new taxes on radio. |
| - david dickson |
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(6/6/2009 8:20:10 PM) The radio stations would suffer, falter, and eventually fail if this legilation passes. Deejays have been foot soldiers, co-laborers in the civil rights movement. They have helped to draw the masses and call the into action. Before there were Blacks on tv tv, the radio was the voice of a disenfranchaised people. We must fight this bill now! |
| - D M |
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