Posted on 06/29/2021 5:02:16 AM PDT by gattaca
Legendary recording artist Dionne Warwick says "flat-out procrastination" by politicians on Capitol Hill over many years is the main reason why recording artists and musicians still do not collect royalties from AM/FM radio.
Songwriters, not musicians or vocalists, are paid royalties for the music played on AM/FM radio.
"Procrastination, just flat out procrastination," Warwick, a five-time Grammy Award winner, said during an interview after the bipartisan American Music Fairness Act was unveiled. "It should have happened 60 years ago when it was brought to the attention of Congress in the Senate by Frank Sinatra and, for whatever reason, they feigned that they did not understand or did not know that we were not being paid, which is completely insane."
Warwick joined co-sponsors Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Capitol Hill to publicly support the legislation, which would require AM/FM radio stations to pay royalties to recording artists and musicians.
The bill would establish a performance royalty that would be paid to recording artists and musicians, a spokesperson for Deutch told Just the News. These recipients "would not get any portion of the songwriters' existing royalties."
"Just like internet and satellite companies pay both songwriters and performers, terrestrial radio would be required to pay both," the spokesperson said. "There are existing rate setting procedures for internet and satellite radio, so under the bill terrestrial radio would undergo that same process. And it is important to note that many of the terrestrial radio stations simulcast their stations over the internet — and pay royalties set under the internet radio rate settings — so they are already quite familiar with this process."
Warwick told Just the News that she wants to meet with President Biden about the legislation.
"Absolutely," she said. "I'd love to meet with him. I think that's something he would welcome.
Deutch said the focus of the bill is fixing the music royalty system so that "going forward we don't ever have to have this conversation about fairness again."
LOL. What’s a record?
LOL!!!!! Best Post today! She must be living on Social Security.
The spouse listens to some local sports chatter after I pick her up from an overcrowded ball game.
That and and a couple of local stations for traffic are about it for presets.
I’m close to turning off XM.
148, Yacht Rock, and Wilkow are about the only reasons I have.
My heart just bleeds for a talentless has-been who’s entire catalog should have entered the public domain 20+ years ago.
... or she could actually get a job like the rest of us.
Call Sirius and tell them you want to cancel. They will offer to reduce your $20 charge down to $6.95 per month for a year. I don’t drive as much with work from home and didn’t see a need for $20 and since i have other options wanted to save the cost and the customer service rep was happy to offer me a reduced rate for a year. When it goes back up to $20 next year you can decide then what you want to do.
Dionne Warwick supports OJ Simpson.
Writing songs and owning what you write has always been the road to riches. That is, if your tunes hit it big. Dionne Warwick knew this and knows this. She was very talented but should have written more or any? She always sang what others wrote.
As it is she made beaucoup performing and recording. She still gets residuals from recording, but nothing compared to what her song writers are getting. Or the estates of the song writers, such as Hal David (died age 91)
Robbie Robertson of The Band snagged most of their song writing credits. Even though these tunes were *really* written with the other members helping along. This is why RR is wealthy today, while the other Band members are not, or died without much money.
#40 and annoyed the actual creator of the music!
There’s a saying in music, “change one word, get a third” meaning the singer can horn in on the songwriting credits and royalties just by doing very little.
Years ago CeeLo Green had song titled “Forget You.”* Five other people have songwriting credit on it. One is Bruno Mars.
* That the nice title for radio airplay.
Uh, like she hasn't had a career already? I expect to be working some at 81 years, but geez.
Fine. She can collect social security like the rest of us then. I see no reason to continue to plunder the public domain for her benefit.
Was just thinking I want to do that. Where does one get those oddball songs digitally, and what’s the process for getting them onto my phone?
Yeah. I used to know how. Adult children help now. I got itunes on my computer you can buy almost anything thing digitally from iTunes or amazon. Then you transfer to a thumb drive or your smartphone or find a younger person to help. I have purchased much of my (100s) of record albums And replaced digitally. If I don’t want the whole album it costs between a buck and a buck and a quarter per song. I use the thumb drive in my truck with 600+ songs. Or I can blue tooth thousands of songs from my iPhone to my truck or to my sound system at home.
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