In a post that could be correlated with my music and
drama blog, I wanted to mention new legislation contemplated in Congress, a Music
Modernization Act (HR 4706) to create a more robust and responsive system to compensate songwriters,
composers and music publishers when the composers’ works are played on digital
services like YouTube.
Mitch Stolz of Electronic Frontier Foundation explains
the act in a post here. The article does have some reservations in
that the bill may favor establishe music publishers and distributors as opposed
to self-published artists. The article
also mentions some other legislation that could politicize copyright in the
direction of work an administration favors.
The article is critical of the bill’s picking winners
with a Classics act, that strengthens copyright for recordings made before 1972
(when I was engaged in my own vinyl record collecting).
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