Radio May Need To Pay To Play

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In a turn around move, Congress may force regular radio stations to pay for performances. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071219-congress-considers-bill-to-make-radio-pay-to-play.html">This is contrast to what they do now</a>. They don't pay anything. Satellite and Internet radio needs to pay, and the RIAA wants everyone to pay them for anything. I agree that someone should be paid. It should be the artists directly, not some front organization setup by the RIAA.

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While radio does pay a fee to songwriters, it pays no performance rights fee, in contrast to just about every other developed country on the planet. The broadcasters argue that they are providing free advertising to musicians, who then make money from touring and record sales. Plenty of artists don't buy this (especially older artists who don't tour or sell albums, but whose hits still keep oldies stations in business), and they can't see why radio is exempted from paying for the music it uses to rake in ad dollars. Tom Waits, one of the most innovative singer/songwriters of the last quarter century, helped to found the musicFIRST coalition that advocates for a performance fee. "It's just plain wrong for radio to be allowed to build profitable businesses with growing revenues on the backs of artists and musicians without paying them fairly for it," he said in a statement today.

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That's good cuz' i don't like KROQ anymore they hog tickets too much X'D I hope they pay a lot of moneys for they're music XD HAA HAA

ha, quite funny. Well, I don't know much about Tom Waits (I've never heard his music on the radio but I'm sure its there somewhere) but I'm wondering why ALL OF A SUDDEN is the way radio works a problem? The radio stations have done things in the same manner for all these years and all of a sudden these artist are having a money problem? I really don't see how you can call yourself popular enough to sell any kind of concert tickets if your music doesn't at least get on a radio station! Its quite simple to understand, the radio DOES boost the artist popularity tremendously, even if an artist just stepped into the industry it is known from jump that before they can even release an album they got to get a few songs on the radio so people know about them. Ever seen an artist go straight to MTV without even getting on a radio station? AND another thing, while these guys are complaining about performance rights fees, indeed it is like Sysadmin has stated, THEY (the artist) is not going to get much at all from this cause the RIAA made sure to setup a "method" which will stream these funds through them FIRST before the artists sees a penny. This whole thing no matter which way it goes is giving the RIAA another way to screw both parties involved (artists and radio).

Hahaha! What a smelly load of you know what this is. It won't make it through, and since it's dated in December 2007, I doubt it did. I rather like that Radio is one of the only methods of dissemination of information that you actually don't have to pay for these days. (disregarding paying for electricity through buying batteries or power outlets) I listen to the radio any chance I get, especially for talk radio which I'm engrossed in. Politics in particular, which I won't be going any further from there.