{"id":31779,"date":"2018-04-26T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31779"},"modified":"2018-04-26T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:25:30","slug":"house-passes-digital-music-licensing-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/house-passes-digital-music-licensing-package\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Digital Music Licensing Package"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was posted today in Radio World:<\/p>\n

Bills head to Senate accompanied by applause from stakeholders<\/h3>\n

The House has unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act<\/a>, a compromise bill that creates a framework for better compensating artists for digital plays of their music and making it easier for music rights organizations to collect those fees from distributors of streamed music like Pandora and Spotify, as they do from traditional plays on TV and radio.<\/p>\n

The bill has been billed as the most significant change in music licensing laws in decades, and drew praise from a chorus of stakeholders. It now heads to the Senate, where it is also expected to pass.<\/p>\n

It actually incorporates a trio of bills. The base Modernization Act creates a single licensing entity for reproduction rights for digital uses, like those of Spotify, Pandora, Google, Apple and Amazon. It also randomly assigns judges to preside over ASCAP and BMI rate-setting cases, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).<\/p>\n

The package also includes The CLASSICS (Compensating Legacy Artists for their Songs, Service, and Important Contributions to Society) Act<\/a> which compensates artists for pre-1972 recordings, which had previously not been eligible for digital royalties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the entire article here<\/a><\/p>\n

It should be interesting to see the impact this has on availability of songs and costs of streaming services over time.<\/p>\n

Robert Gulley, AK3Q,\u00a0is the author of this post and a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post. Robert also blogs<\/em>\u00a0at All Things Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was posted today in Radio World: Bills head to Senate accompanied by applause from stakeholders The House has unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act, a compromise bill that creates a framework for better compensating artists for digital plays of their music and making it easier for music rights organizations to collect those fees from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3194,3,4652],"tags":[6999,6998],"class_list":["post-31779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-wifi-radio","tag-royalties","tag-streaming-services"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8gz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27522,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/senate-rejects-bill-to-restore-australias-shortwave-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":31779,"position":0},"title":"Senate rejects bill to restore Australia’s shortwave services","author":"Thomas","date":"August 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio Info) Bill to restore shortwave rejected by Senate Committee A Senate Committee inquiring into the possibility of restoring ABC Shortwave services has rejected proposed legislation to restore the international radio service. 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