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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
I AM in favor of a statutory license paid to performers for the use of their music on radio stations. Currently, performers are not compensated in any way when their work is played on radio
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I don't disagree... but how do you see this working? Would you imagine some kind of ASCAP/BMI clearinghouse for the performers? What about performers who did the recording as straight work for hire? For that matter what about the engineers etc.? How is this different (or should it be?) from the software industry--the coders who wrote Office 2007 don't get residuals on it.
Maybe the NAB and the RIAA will sue each other out of existence . . .