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PERFORM Act back in play


January 12, 2007 A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday that would require satellite, cable and Internet broadcasters to pay the market price for digitally transmitting music. Senators Feinstein, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., pushed the same legislation last year, but opposition by traditional, satellite radio and Internet broadcasters killed it. The RIAA, music publishers and musicians groups all support the bill, which would bring digitally transmitted music under the same royalty regime with a rate that mimics the "fair market value" an individual would pay in the open market.

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