Copyright Law Updates | New Proposed Legislation
March 31, 2008
Performance Rights Act
S.2500, H.R.4789, 12/18/2007
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (VT) and Rep. Howard L. Berman (CA) introduced this bill in chambers on December 18, 2007. The bill is described, “A bill to provide fair compensation to artists for use of their sound recordings,” and shall be also known as the “Performance Rights Act.”
This bill revises federal copyright law to provide performers of sound recordings rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters. It sets a flat annual fee in lieu of payment of royalties for individual terrestrial broadcast stations with gross revenues of less than $1.25 million and for non-commercial, public broadcast stations. Alternatively, it grants terrestrial…
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