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Do you have a link to the petition?  

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congrats

SongCraft
The United States is the only democratic country in the world where artists don’t get paid for AM/FM radio airplay.

Am I safe to assume that like here in Canada, Radio Stations traditionally pay ASCAP and BMI (maybe others) for the songwriters and the publishing... and that this act is to include "performers" in the right to be paid? Or is this bill just looking to have the "artists" (eg: Katie Perry, but not the studio players that actually made the music) get paid?
 
In Canada SOCAN is our version of ASCAP & BMI. A few years back a new organization labelled MROC (Musician Rights of Canada) emerged that accounts for the musicians on recordings. A musician registers with MROC, then submits their repertoire of recordings they have played on. After that, you sit back and hope a check (cheque in Canada) comes . Is this comparable to what the "Fair Pay" act is trying to accomplish?

The petition is still open for all those that want to make this happen.

Hi,
 
This is good. The only problem is that the AM/FM bands, specially in America are now "owned" by the same company that also delivers the music and supports the artists, and this means that a whole lot of bands will STILL not be heard, and the supposed money will add a hundred dollar check for Christmas, with a middle finger in the front!
 
When FM started getting bought out in the mid 70's it killed the majority of the freedom on radio in America ... and it is now strictly a kiss-ash venture to make sure the money stays home.
 
I think that petition would be stronger if both bands had more freedom of choice instead of just hocus-pocus words, and honestly? ... I want them to die, and a different rule will have to be added later to the Internet ... because now we have 3 rules ... TV, Radio and Internet ... and they need to be combined ... but they want because of the corporate ownership of these ... specially when many of the same companies own the same conglomerates of the media!

SongCraft
Thanks to all the people who had the commonsense and decency to support 'Fair-Pay'.  Just recently I got mentioned by the founder who organized this campaign - Awesome!

Did you get paid for the mention?
 
 
 
 
Just wondering.. 

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