Legislators Seek Performance Rights Truce

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A group of legislators from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are hoping to negotiate a truce between broadcasters and the recording industry over the Performance Rights Act, which would impose a fee on radio stations for music airplay.

In an Oct. 30 letter to the National Association of Broadcasters and the musicFirst Coalition, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), along with four other members, requested that the stakeholders affected by the legislation enter into negotiations before the Performance Rights Act goes to the floor of either House.

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