SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING

Bills and resolutions

Copyrights: allow a rate court to consider other royalty rates when establishing digital performance rates for songwriters and adopt a fair rate standard for reproduction (see S. 2321), S2910 [12MY] (see H.R. 4079), H1937 [25FE]

——— provide for the payment of royalties for the performance of sound recordings fixed before a certain date (see H.R. 4772), H5022 [29MY]

Television: deny the right to grant retransmission consent to a television station if an AM or FM radio station licensed to the same licensee transmits a sound recording without providing compensation for programming (see H.R. 4588), H3939 [7MY]

Remarks in House

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP): anniversary, E199 [11FE]

Copyrights: allow a rate court to consider other royalty rates when establishing digital performance rates for songwriters and adopt a fair rate standard for reproduction (H.R. 4079), E1278 [30JY]

Remarks in Senate

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP): anniversary, S944 [12FE]