NAB President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt is testifying against the American Music Fairness Act that would require radio stations to pay new performance royalties for music airplay. And in his comments, he talks about the role radio still plays in the greater media ecosystem.
“Radio stations’ critical role as trusted first informers and emergency lifelines has
never been more apparent than today,” LeGeyt said. “With online misinformation and disinformation threatening to upend our upcoming elections, and the seemingly constant deluge of natural disasters and cell phone outages, local radio remains trusted, always-on and
freely available without an expensive subscription or data service.”
He added that implementing the AMFA would be a radical change for radio broadcasters to experience.
“Such an abrupt change in law that governs relationships between incumbent rights holders and users would be wholly inconsistent with Congress’s long-held approach to copyright policy,” LeGeyt said.
“Whether it was the emergence of player piano rolls, copy machines, VHS recordings, streaming services or search engines, Congress has consistently focused its major copyright reforms on updates to law that are needed to account for new or emerging technologies — not mediums that have existed for more than 100 years. It would be unprecedented for Congress to upend copyright laws that have governed decades-long relationships, on which entire industries have been built to the mutual benefit of stakeholders as well as the public, and where the fundamental nature of each remains intact.”
He continued by noting that services like SiriusXM and streaming platforms are able to charge subscription rates from users to recoup costs like the AMFA would require.
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