Music Airplay & the Proposed Performance Rights Act

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Preface
Telecommunications: The Proposed Performance Rights Act Would Result in Additional Costs for Broadcast Radio Stations & Additional Revenue for Record Companies, Musicians, & Performers
Expanding the Scope of the Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings: A Legal Analysis of the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848 & S. 379)
Statement of Steven Newberry, Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters, Hearing on "The Performance Rights Act & Parity among Music Delivery Platforms"
Statement of Ralph Oman (Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball & Kreiger, The George Washington University Law School, before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Hearing on "The Performance Rights Act & Parity among Music Delivery Platforms")
Testimony of Sheila E. (a.k.a. Sheila Escovedo), before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Hearing on "The Performance Rights Act & Parity among Music Delivery Platforms"
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This book explores the transmission of copyrighted sound recordings to the public by over-the-air AM/FM radio stations which is an activity that implicates the right of public performance under the Copyright Act. However, under current law, terrestrial radio broadcasters who play copyrighted music need only compensate songwriters for the performance of their musical compositions and not the holders of the copyright in the sound recording. Sound recording copyright holders assert that there is no justifiable reason for the copyright law to treat sound recordings differently from other categories of performable copyrighted works. They maintain that recording artists deserve to be fairly compensated by broadcast radio for public performance of their works just as songwriters and music publishers are currently being paid for such activity.

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