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.
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