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More Members Oppose Royalties for Local Airplay
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Six more House members and four additional U.S. Senators have thrown their support behind a bipartisan resolution opposing "any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge" on local radio stations for airplay. The resolution is designed to block the RIAA's effort to slap a new fee on radio for airing music free to listeners.
"Given the record labels' decades-long history of exploiting musicians for their own financial gain, lawmakers are growing increasingly skeptical over the RIAA's disingenuous claim that this new fee will benefit artists," said NAB Executive VP Dennis Wharton. "And with 50% of the new fee funneled directly into the coffers of the foreign-owned record labels, who can blame them?"
The Local Radio Freedom Act (H. Con. Res. 49), unveiled at a February Capitol Hill event hosted by the Free Radio Alliance, was introduced by Reps. Gene Green (TX-29) and Mike Conaway (TX-11). In March, an identical resolution was introduced in the Senate (S. Con. Res. 14) by Sens. Blanche Lincoln (AR) and John Barrasso (WY).
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