This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. A Washingtonian dog fight is nothing new. Today the radio industry is embroiled in a political argument with the record business. The argument is ...

The members of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property recognize that there are two sides to the dispute over the imposition of broadcast ...

After reading various trade press reports of comments by Bonneville International CEO Bruce Reese last week at the Conclave Learning Conference in Minneapolis that he would “love to cut a deal” on ...

With a dozen working days left on the 2025 Capitol Hill calendar, American Music Fairness Act supporters are renewing their crusade to force AM/FM radio to pay more performance royalties, even if it ...

The original frontman of The Guess Who, Burton Cummings, terminated his public performance license agreements in the hope of preventing what he calls a The Guess Who “cover band” from performing the ...

Musicians of all genres today are building on the legacy of earlier songwriters. But digital performance royalties are not paid to artists for music recorded before 1972. Two Tennessee legislators ...