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October 30, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID) and Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), members of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced a landmark bipartisan bill today to bring common sense and flexibility to federal criminal sentencing laws.
H.R. 848, the Performance Rights Act was reported out of the House Judiciary Committee on May 13, 2009, in a bipartisan 21-9 vote.
This bill will correct our copyright law that allows AM and FM broadcasters to use music without compensating the performers, musicians, and owners who created it.
Under current law, when songs are played on internet radio, satellite radio, audio cable television music stations, television shows, commercials and movies, the performers are paid. Only AM/FM radio has been exempt from fairly compensating artists for the use of their property.