SAVE LOCAL AND INTERNET RADIO
- by: Dennis Thevenin
- recipient: U.S. Congress
Video may have killed the radio star but radio is still a media powerhouse across the United States. Now the fatcats at the RIAA want to charge radio stations outrageous fees to play music on their station. The very industry that made them what they are today! Because of the economy in it's current state, money is not easy to come by these days. We all are aware of this. The Performance Rights Act of 2009 will eliminate local and internet radio stations with these outrageous fees the RIAA is wanting to enforce. ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER TO LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! This is a blog for you to state your opinion on the matter. Feel free to tell the world how you feel about this outrageous claim that the corporate fatcats at the RIAA need more money. Please tell your friends and pass on this information. Otherwise your favorite song or new favorite song may just be static. This is a copy of the bill in front of congress as you read this. Performance Rights Act - Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters; (2) establish a flat annual fee in lieu of payment of royalties for individual terrestrial broadcast stations with gross revenues of less than $1.25 million and for noncommercial, public broadcast stations; (3) grant an exemption from royalty payments for broadcasts of religious services and for incidental uses of musical sound recordings; and (4) grant terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings a per program license option. Prohibits taking into account license fees payable for public performance via digital audio transmission of sound recordings in any proceeding to set or adjust the license fees for the purpose of reducing or adversely affecting such license fees. (Current law prohibits taking those fees into account in such a proceeding without referencing the purpose.) Prohibits anything in this Act from adversely affecting the public performance rights or royalties payable to songwriters or copyright owners of musical works. Prohibits taking into account the rates established by the Copyright Royalty Judges in any proceeding to reduce or adversely affect the license fees payable for public performances by terrestrial broadcast stations. Requires that such license fees for the public performance of musical works be independent of license fees paid for the public performance of sound recordings. Revises provisions relating to proceeds from the licensing of transmissions.
It is poposterous that the RIAA would try to take advantage of the one thing that has made them what they are in the first place! If this bill passes in congress, the only radio stations left will be Clear Channel Radio because they are the only ones that can afford to pay the outrageous fines about to be brought on by this Performance Rights Act of 2009. I urge each and every person that visits this site to contact your congressmen and women and encourage them to vote no to this act. It will just be giving more money to these corporate fatcats that the smaller radio stations can't afford to pay. You have a voice, USE IT!
This will eliminate local and internet radio stations as we know them. When you turn on a radio, you expect music to be there, but this bill before Congress might change that. Congress could soon force stations to pay a fee every time they play songs - or pay to play. The recording industry heavily lobbied Congress to get the bill in front of the House and Senate. They want compensation from radio stations who make billions in sales by playing songs without paying artists and record labels. To fight back, the National Association of Broadcasters lobbied for the Local Radio Freedom Act. The fight is not only a split between party lines, but also by geography. The record company's bill is mostly supported by representatives in the Northeast and California. The Radio Stations' Act is supported by representatives mostly in the South and Midwest. There's no word when the House or Senate will vote on the bills. Radio stations already compensate the writers and composers of music when it's played. An independent analyst estimates stations could pay between $2 billion to $7 billion in fees if the bill passes.
It is poposterous that the RIAA would try to take advantage of the one thing that has made them what they are in the first place! If this bill passes in congress, the only radio stations left will be Clear Channel Radio because they are the only ones that can afford to pay the outrageous fines about to be brought on by this Performance Rights Act of 2009. I urge each and every person that visits this site to contact your congressmen and women and encourage them to vote no to this act. It will just be giving more money to these corporate fatcats that the smaller radio stations can't afford to pay. You have a voice, USE IT!
This will eliminate local and internet radio stations as we know them. When you turn on a radio, you expect music to be there, but this bill before Congress might change that. Congress could soon force stations to pay a fee every time they play songs - or pay to play. The recording industry heavily lobbied Congress to get the bill in front of the House and Senate. They want compensation from radio stations who make billions in sales by playing songs without paying artists and record labels. To fight back, the National Association of Broadcasters lobbied for the Local Radio Freedom Act. The fight is not only a split between party lines, but also by geography. The record company's bill is mostly supported by representatives in the Northeast and California. The Radio Stations' Act is supported by representatives mostly in the South and Midwest. There's no word when the House or Senate will vote on the bills. Radio stations already compensate the writers and composers of music when it's played. An independent analyst estimates stations could pay between $2 billion to $7 billion in fees if the bill passes.
We the undersigned people of the United States of America do not want this bill passed. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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