There’s an effort in Congress to address how musical artists are compensated across all forms of radio, he heard from Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. According to Westergren, “the system as it stands today is fundamentally unfair both to Internet radio services like Pandora, which pay higher royalties than other forms of radio, and to musical artists, who receive no compensation at all when their music is played on AM/FM radio.
“A bill has been introduced in congress to remedy this by establishing a level playing field. We, along with the artists whose music we play, strongly support this new legislation called the Performance Rights Act (H.R. 848).”
According to Westergren, Representative James P. Moran is a co-sponsor of the bill. For more information, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.848: