The Intellectual Property Breakfast Club (2011) [video]

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'A Performance Right for Broadcasting: Will Radio Begin to Pay?'

When a song airs on the radio, who should get royalties? Songwriters already get paid, but performers and record companies don't get anything. The U.S. stands alone among industrialized nations in not recognizing such a performance right for over-the-air broadcasting. Will this change? Last year, the House Judiciary Committee passed such legislation by a 21 to 9 vote margin. (The bill never went to the floor of Congress.) And now the White House has recommended that Congress create this new right.