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MUSIC LAW UPDATE: Performance Royalties - The Letter Of The Law
Entertainment 

By Owen J. Sloane and Rachel Stilwell


The Performance Rights Act, a controversial bill supported by performers and record labels and excoriated by terrestrial radio, will be considered by Congress in 2009. If passed, the PRA would end terrestrial radio stations' exemption from copyright laws requiring satellite radio, webcasters and cable radio broadcasters to pay royalties for the broadcast of sound recordings.

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This article appeared in the Oct. 17, 2008 edition of Radio and Records.


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