{"id":343,"date":"2009-07-11T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-07-11T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T18:47:40","slug":"pandora-asks-subscribers-to-support-the-performance-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2009\/07\/pandora-asks-subscribers-to-support-the-performance-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora asks subscribers to support the Performance Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/briancaldwell\/510425942\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tim Westerngren\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/191\/510425942_51a843dae5.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Westerngren; source: flickr\" width=\"119\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Westergren; source: flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you listen to Pandora internet radio, you probably got a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pandora.com\/pandora\/\">message<\/a> yesterday from the service&#8217;s founder Tim Westergren, asking subscribers to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c111:H.R.848:\">Performance Rights Act<\/a>. That&#8217;s the proposed law that would require terrestrial radio stations to pay performance royalty fees to the artists whose music they broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The system as it stands today is fundamentally unfair both to Internet radio services like Pandora,&#8221; Westergren wrote to subscribers, &#8220;which pay higher royalties than other forms of radio, and to musical artists, who receive no compensation at all when their music is played on AM\/FM radio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At present streaming services do have to pay performance royalty fees. This week, Sound Exchange, the non-profit that sets the fee rates, released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2009\/07\/09\/hey-pandora-id-pay-even-more-than-99-cents-for-djs\/\">new terms<\/a> that most observers say will be less onerous on streamers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, along with the artists whose music we play, strongly support the establishment of a level playing field, a truly fair system,&#8221; Westergren&#8217;s subscriber letter concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Most commercial  broadcasters strongly oppose the PRA, as do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2009\/06\/25\/college-radio-opposition-to-performance-rights-act\/\">college radio stations<\/a>. At present the bill is reported out of the House Committee on the Judiciary. A parallel law is still in committee in the Senate. Over-the-air broadcasters are pushing a <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c111:H.CON.RES.49:%22\">counter resolution<\/a> in the House that would prohibit imposing performance fees on their stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen to Pandora internet radio, you probably got a message yesterday from the service&#8217;s founder Tim Westergren, asking subscribers to support the Performance Rights Act. That&#8217;s the proposed law that would require terrestrial radio stations to pay performance royalty fees to the artists whose music they broadcast. &#8220;The system as it stands today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4876,28],"tags":[2063,39,2832],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-radio","category-internet-radio","tag-pandora","tag-performance-rights-act","tag-tim-westergren"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}