Radio Fights Back, Calls Artist Royalties an 'RIAA Tax'
Date : 2008 06 30 Category : Web News
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Unable to explain why satellite radio, Internet streaming-services, and everybody else has to pay royalties to artists and it doesn't, terrestrial radio fights back with words like "tax" and "foreign-owned labels."
Last week I mentioned how the music industry had begun calling terrestrial radio "a form of piracy." They did so as part of an effort to get full royalty payments that now otherwise exclude royalties having to be paid to artists and musicians. Now it seems the National Assn. of Broadcasters (NAB) is fighting back with a clever series of charged catchphrases and terms.