It’s Time to Correct a Creative Injustice

• By Reps. Jim Cooper, Hank Johnson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Marsha Blackburn and Darrell Issa
• Special to Roll Call
• Oct. 26, 2009, Midnight

In the long-running feud between singers and radio broadcasters, we believe it is time to correct a historic inequity on behalf of the artists who make the music come alive. We are not against broadcasters, but we believe that performers have a right to benefit from their own labor, and that no radio station should be able to take their recordings without fair compensation. This is, fundamentally, a property-rights issue.