By Independent News Roundup
| This week I visited the U.S. Senate, where I testified about the American Music Fairness Act, the bipartisan bill that will compel AM/FM radio corporations to finally start paying artists for their music. Now, I’m asking for your help. "Do you realize that your favorite recording artist is paid zero cents, not even one penny, when you hear their music on AM/FM radio? Shockingly, Elvis was never paid a single penny for the millions of times his music was played on AM/FM radio. This includes Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion, George Strait, Whitney Houston, and all the new artists. None of them has ever received a penny for radio airplay on AM/FM radio. Meanwhile, just this last year, AM/FM radio stations have made $14 billion. While recording artists, all of them, have made zero. This must change. Now." Thanks, Gene Simmons KISS founder Gene Simmons is the latest artist to stand up and demand passage of the American Music Fairness Act (AMFA) and to compel big radio corporations to pay recording artists for the use of their work. More than 300 artists wrote Congress earlier this year demanding radio join the rest of the democratic world and pay artists a performance royalty on terrestrial radio. Watch him testify alongside SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe at this week’s Balancing the Interests of Local Radio, Songwriters, and Performers in the Digital Age hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. JOIN THE FIGHT! We urge you to reach out to your congressional representatives to demand passage of AMFA. |
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