Is radio suppressing pro-Performance Rights Act artists?
There’s a new battle developing in the bitter war over the Performance Rights Act—proposed legislation that would require terrestrial radio stations to pay royalties to the artists whose songs they broadcast. The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to hear comments on reports that radio station owners are “targeting and threatening artists who have spoken out in favor of the PRA,” with some going so far as refusing to play their music. The FCC is responding to a Petition for Declaratory Relief submitted by the MusicFIRST coalition, a group backed by the Recording Industry Association of America, SoundExchange, and various musicians’ groups. In addition to accusing radio stations of “engaging in a pattern of threats and intimidation against artists to chill their speech,” MusicFIRST says they are refusing to run the coalition’s ads. All this is part of a coordinated campaign “designed to spread malicious and untruthful information—all in an effort to avoid royalty payment to ar
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