The Free Market Royalty Act would make copyrighted...
The Free Market Royalty Act would make copyrighted music more free, said Free State Foundation fellow Seth Cooper in an blog post Thursday (http://bit.ly/1aqpwBY). Cooper said the existing market for copyrighted music isn’t that free, since there are forced access…
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mandates and rate controls, including government regulations and royalties. The Free Market Royalty Act would “bring some needed free market reforms to federal policy regarding royalties for copyrighted music,” he said. The bill would “eliminate compulsory licensing and rate controls for public performances of copyrighted music content by commercial music service providers. And the bill would treat all music services equally,” all of which are provisions he welcomes, he said. House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittee ranking member Mel Watt, D-N.C., introduced the bill, HR-3219, in September (CD Oct 1 p7).