LIVE: House committee hearing on copyright issues, royalties and inequities for recording artists

LOVE YOU RANDY , THANKS to his wife hard work , All radio media should be hooked to to a source which have to pay 10 cents per songs to the artist , and all streams with a 1.00 per month per song plugged to the main artists pool source , for example .

I wonder who owns the music companies they are going after hum what Did K west say about certain people stealing

Our local radio is all commercials.

Hahahaha Hank Johnson always make me laugh at how he struggles to read his aides' prepared speeches. He's a stumblin' machine and sounds so ignorant...

Id say LOCAL radio should be exempt to copy right and fed fees.

Congress have no place in limiting the rights of the public to free speech, to include listening to the radio or any other form of music period. Congress and the government have no right to taxation of free speech and or songs on the open airways or any other media period. And in the form of copyright and royalties go; it should be understood that listening to music can also be a form of advertising in that people may want that full album. But if recording artist release the full album to social media platforms; it should be expected it will be for public consumption. Paid or un-paid. If industry and standards are going to change it must first start with the producers who, have control and record for distribution that music or audio. Compensation to the music artist should be upfront and the terms of use agreed upon up front. Meaning, this music will be distributed on social media or it will only be used CD or other hard media, etc.... and term limits- how long. So on and so on... Once the artist agree than the production should honor that. Social media platforms should do what it can to protect the rights of the individuals, but in the end the right of the people who will listen must come first. If that is too hard than they need to go back to the cassette tape again.

It sounded like the music industry is getting paid BUT the MUSIC industry is not paying the performer, Why not leave local radio alone and let the performer go on strike against the music industry that is holding back funds? I think Prince and a few others did that.

Guess I need to stop listing to Randy Travis tunes.

Music Industry is a greedy lot.

Tencent ☁️

Bassem is the truth! Spin it however you like..... Who is news nation anyway???

They are talking about royalties for entertainers? What a useless policy for THE PEOPLE!!

I wonder who owns the music companies they are going after hum what Did K west say about certain people stealing