The AFL-CIO has passed a resolution of support for the American Music Fairness Act. The AMFA sets up a performance fee system requiring radio stations to pay for playing music. It is being pushed by the musicFirst Coalition.
“We applaud the AFL-CIO for standing by artists and music creators and lending the strength of its 12.5 million members to the fight for passage of the American Music Fairness Act,” said Congressman Joe Crowley, Chairman of the musicFIRST Coalition. “This legislation will benefit artists across the country — including the tens of thousands who are members of SAG-AFTRA, the American Federation of Musicians and other AFL-CIO unions — by correcting a decades-long injustice fueled by corporate greed that has left artists uncompensated for the use of their songs on AM/FM radio.”
As a result of the AMFA, support is growing in the industry and Congress for the Local Radio Freedom Act, which opposes any new performance fee.
“This legislation will benefit artists across the country — including the tens of thousands who are members of SAG-AFTRA”
The conflict is that a lot of radio talent are also members of AFTRA. They will not benefit at all from this royalty. If anything, it might cost them their jobs. But I guess that’s OK. Americans lose their jobs so the international record labels like Sony and Vivendi can pocket millions more.
Of course it supports AMFA. All labor unions, whether public or private sector, ruin everything they touch. Labor unions are Marxist wrecking machines.