Indie Rocker Erin McKeown Talks Performance Rights
Submitted by Music First Coa... on 5 March 2010 - 5:07pm
Another group supporting a public performance right is the Future of Music Coalition (FMC). FMC is a national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for their work, and where fans can find the music they want. They do research, education, policy and advocacy work both in DC and across the country.
Recently FMC brought Indie Rocker Erin McKeown to visit Congress for a look at the expanded coalition working to win fair pay for air play. Here is some of what Erin wrote for the FMC blog. (excerpts reposted with permission)
I now know I'm not alone in feeling this way. A couple of days ago, I was on Capitol Hill to learn more about current legislative efforts to pass a public performance right for terrestrial radio. I was very impressed by Dionne Warwick, and not just because she's an amazing music legend. She had a really great way of showing how important this right is to everyday working artists. I was also moved by how Representative Conyers talked about the basic injustice of not paying people for their hard work. That should be something that's pretty easy for everyone to grasp, but the big broadcasters don't seem to get it. Or maybe they just don't want to. Either way, it's not fair to artists.
One thing that's super-important to remember about the performance right: it would compensate artists directly for the use of their work. So when you hear the commercial broadcasters and their round-the-clock radio ads saying that it only benefits the big labels, it's simply not true. The artists' 50 percent goes straight to the artists - it doesn't go through the label to be held against so-called "recoupable" debt. This is a pretty big deal, and one of the reasons I support the performance right.
Of course, at the end of the day, it's about artists, who are workers just like everyone else. And people who make stuff that has value in a marketplace deserve to get paid for their work. Makes sense to me. How about you?
http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2010/03/04/erin-mckeown-public-performance-right
When a music artist go in a studio to record a music piece written or sing. His work should be copy right protected. The studio or record company pay for that work to be done at the time the work is render. Each time that work is purchased a portion of the purchased price should go to the artist that made that product. But the artist do not get a portion of the purchase price but the record company get most the money. There are many players middle men also geting a portion more than the Artist.
How do radio stations get the music they play on the Air is record/CD company giveing the music for air play or are radio station buying the records/CD for air play. I can sit here in my studio and make a product get it copy right protected. Take it to a radio station for it to be played and watch how fast it go in the trash basket. The Product has to have a market value place on it by listeners.
Radio stations place that product in the listeners domain for that value to be added. Thus the product began to sell and everybody get rich except the Atrist that made the product.
Let say I go buy a CD/record work of an artist how every way it is purchased a portion of that should go to the artist. but when I play that paid for product on my CD/ player or what ever device I use to produce the sound (Radio Station) which I purchases and have Adds from business paying me to sell thair product. I play the CD/Record I Already paid For., or was given to me by someone who paid for the product. An artist should get paid from residual from each purchased item product not each hearing of the product if that the case ever person that is playing a CD/Record product they bought from from a store should be paying the artist ever time he here the product in his house car business.
Now is it a law that a radio station purchase their music. Because they are buying large sound collection from music company now., that is played on the air. Go Start a radio station and see who will give you the music to play without some kind of price for it
Freddie C, Howard
Howcee Productions.
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