musicFirst blasts NAB, right before D.C. conference
Monday, February 25, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Tags: musicFIRST, NAB, Royalties
Today, musicFirst launched the ad you see here, and issued a press release, to welcome NAB representatives to Washington, DC for the NAB's State Leadership Conference.
The ad ran in this morning's edition of Roll Call, and the release featured three questions that the organization feels members of Congress should be asking NAB's lobbyists.
"There are many questions that the NAB and corporate radio lobbyists can not possibly answer with a clear conscious," said Doyle Bartlett, executive director of the musicFirst Coalition. "Here are just three:"
- How can you justify taking someone's intellectual property and making $16 billion in annual advertising revenue off that property without compensating the creators and owners of the property?
- Why do you deserve a competitive advantage in the music marketplace? Artists and musicians are paid when their music is broadcast on satellite radio, Internet radio and digital music services delivered through satellite and cable television.
- Which of your leaders is right: David Rehr, president of NAB, or W. Russell Withers, chairman of the NAB Radio Board?
Rehr calls paying artists for their work product a "performance tax" while Mr. Withers said before the Senate Commerce Committee, "I disagree with 'performance tax.' It's a performance fee." What is wrong with paying a fee for product that makes you money?
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Here's well written article on the change in peradime needed at the FCC...then it supports the merger. Wasn't expecting it. Great article.
http://www.news.com/At-FCC,-change-must-be-the-mantra/2010-1033_3-6231729.html
Posted by: Little Bitty | February 25, 2008 7:22 PM
Interesting ad, though it only tells half the story -- the same picture can be depicted with a bank vault behind the guy playing the guitar... being locked as the Record Company CEO's are laughing the whole time. Its funny how they complain about radio -- when it's radio that made those record companies so rich in the first place. Talk about biting the hand...
This Bill doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell. This is wasted money by MusicFirst.
Posted by: homer985 | February 25, 2008 9:50 PM
Great ad, very powerful. Wrong as well though. Radio is the machine that promotes artists. If it was so bad, independent or individual artists and record companies wouldn't be shipping out boxes of CD's to radio stations every day of the year to give out to listeners. Is everyone forgetting about BMI and ASCAP? The money they collect is distributed through their members. Saying they don't get paid is bull.
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