legislation: 110-s-2500

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110-s-2500 110 s 2500 Performance Rights Act Commerce 2007-12-18 2008-07-29 Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Senate Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] VT D L000174 4 Performance Rights Act - Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters; (2) establish a flat annual fee in lieu of payment of royalties for individual terrestrial broadcast stations with gross revenues of less than $1.25 million and for non-commercial, public broadcast stations; (3) grant an exemption from royalty payments for broadcasts of religious services and for incidental uses of musical sound recordings; and (4) grant terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings a per program license option.Provides that nothing in this Act shall adversely affect the public performance rights or royalties payable to songwriters or copyright owners of musical works. 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z  

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