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Broadcasters are getting more support from Congress to kill legislation that would impose performance fees on music airplay.
A group of 22 House Democrats sent a letter late Friday (July 31) to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional Democratic leaders, urging them not to bring the Performance Rights Act to the floor for a vote.
Although the bill passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, more than 246 House members on both sides of the aisle signed The Local Radio Freedom Act, a nonbinding resolution that denounces any new performance fee, tax, royalty or other charge on radio for music airplay.
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