Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I very much agree with your comments, and I do agree that the time is now and tha...
This lack of a public performance right for sound recordings is a huge international embarrassment.
Thus, isn't it misleading to call this a new tax?
I am concerned that we are the only nation in the industrialized world that does not provide these performance rights.
Why are we the only industrialized country that does this?
As opposed to the webcaster?
I come from California. We are a big intellectual property State, and I have found over many decades that protecting cop...
That amounts to millions and millions of dollars every year.
The best rate standard for all radio platforms is fair market value, as you proposed, Madam Chairwoman, in the Perform A...
How so? I mean, why are we separate from Europe or any other nation?
It would be a shame if our copyright laws encouraged American artists to go overseas to record their works.
You are saying it is okay for us to take the content. You are saying it is okay for us to play them without recompense t...
And that is a big deal.
I believe we will have a bill.
Okay. Anybody else have a view on that?
Wouldn't this encourage some of them to record in other countries?
I think that we all agree that we should have goals set under the current way it is done.
Can that be a model that we could use in the Chesapeake Bay program, recognizing that we also must provide the resources...
