Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said his proposed music royalty bill...

day, Chaffetz’s legislation has very little support,” Nadler told us. Several Democrats on the House Judiciary IP Subcommittee said during a recent hearing they opposed Chaffetz’s Internet Radio Fairness Act (IRFA) (HR-6480) because they said the bill failed to force broadcasters to compensate performance artists whose work is played over terrestrial radio (CD Nov 29 p3) or (WID Nov 29 p1) or (CED Nov 29 p1). Nadler told us that incoming House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., is more “sympathetic” to Nadler’s draft legislation, the interim Fairness in Radio Starts Today (FIRST) Act. The bill differs from IRFA by directing the Copyright Royalty Board to incorporate the price of artists’ intellectual property into broadcasters’ royalty payments related to music feeds they stream over the Internet. A Goodlatte spokesman did not comment. Nadler said he eventually wants to craft a bill that forces broadcasters to pay royalties to performance artists’ whose work they play on terrestrial radio. “We've got to bring them into it. There is no other place in a capitalist society, in a free enterprise society where people’s work is not paid for. It is just anomalous. We are the only major country that does it.” Separately Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said she too was optimistic that music royalty legislation would advance in the 113th Congress. “I think we probably have a better chance next year than we did this year,” she said during an interview at the Capitol. “There is less hostility on the committee overall and that [decrease in] hostility has not yet translated into support but it’s a step forward.” Lofgren is a co-sponsor of the IRFA.