Maxine Waters actually said...

"Let me also say, to Mr. Newberry, I think you have made an excellent case here today, but none of us, I think, believe that performance artists don't deserve to be paid."

"Am I to understand that, say, the big copyright holders who invest and who promote and who charge the artists for every aspect of the promotion and whatever they do, they are not getting a return on i..."

"So they're not deducting this from the artists' earnings at all?"

"Well----"