SoundExchange Possibly Overstepping Its Bounds With Illegal Lobbying

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SoundExchange Possibly Overstepping Its Bounds With Illegal Lobbying

It looks like internet radio's favorite fee-collection organization, SoundExchange, ability be arena harder and fast with acknowledged banned on how it can absorb calm money. Not on the account of three adequate uses (full acknowledged abracadabra post-jump) is lobbying and PR. But Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk noticed that it appears to be affianced in both.


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Under Area 114(g)(3) of the Copyright Act, it's alone accustomed to use the money for

(A) the administering of the collection, distribution, and adding of the royalties;

(B) the adjustment of disputes apropos to the accumulating and adding of the royalties; and


(C) the licensing and administration of rights with account to the authoritative of brief recordings and performances accountable to licensing beneath area 112 and this section, including those incurred in accommodating in negotiations or adjudication affairs beneath area 112 and this section, except that all costs incurred apropos to the area 112 brief recordings appropriate may alone be deducted from the royalties accustomed pursuant to area 112.

Yet, it's a affiliate and financier of the musicFIRST affiliation (fairness in radio starting today), a PR accumulation which aims to end the "free ride" approved radio stations get by not paying achievement royalties (satellite radio already does and net broadcasters might soon ).

Despite my abridgement of a law degree, I'm appealing abiding none of musicFIRST's activities are listed in those provisions. But organizations affiliated to the music industry specialize in artistic acknowledged interpretations (they represent artists afterwards all), so I'm abiding there's a altogether acceptable account for that. [Listening Post]

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