The latest efforts by the American record industry to force terrestrial radio stations to pay royalties to labels solidified around a new piece of legislation in Congress yesterday, The Fair Play, Fair Pay Act, with four members of the House Of Representatives backing the bill: Democrats Jerrold Nadler, John Conyers Jr and Ted Deutch and Republican Marsha Blackburn.
As much previously reported, federal copyright law in the US is unusual in that it does not provide a general public performance right to the owners of sound recording copyrights, which means that, unlike in pretty much every other country, you do not need a licence from a record company to play a sound recording in public or, say, on the radio.
Posted on: 15/04/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
