Today, musicFirst launched the ad you see here, and issued a press release, to welcome NAB representatives to Washington, DC for the .
The ad ran in this
morning’s edition of Roll Call, and 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?
I’m glad to see, finally, someone is taking terrestrial radio to task. You reap what you sow I guess.
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