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Originally Posted by vivfox
Matt, radio stations have always had to pay a royalty on every song they play. The ads they sell bring revenue dollars into the station. BMI and ASCAP monitor all the radio stations in the world to collect royalties for their artists.
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Not quite; what you reference are licences that allow a station to licence an entire catalog, artist or label. This new deal, specifically, is a per-song royalty for each time the song is played. A license fee that gives you broadcast rights for, say, all of Polydor's artists, is very different than a deal which says that you will pay 15 cents every single time you play a particular song from a particular Polydor artist.
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While the U.S. music industry has long sought performance royalties for master rights owners and artists -- something which is paid in most other countries -- it has never achieved that right in the U.S.
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