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WASHINGTON – Today Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), John Conyers (D-Mich), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ted Deutch (D-Fla), and Tom Rooney (R-Fla) introduced The Fair Play Fair Pay Act designed to help music creators get paid fairly when their music is played across various platforms, including AM/FM radio, SiriusXM and others.

An extensive coalition of organizations representing virtually the entire music community has filed new comments with the U.S. Copyright Office decrying a broken and antiquated Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as part of the Office’s ongoing study of the law.

A diverse group of creative industry companies, advocacy groups, labor unions, associations, programmers, and individual creators are raising concerns about the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to regulate the set top box market—and its potential impact on copyright and content creators’ ability to be compensated for their work.

Hundreds of artists, songwriters, managers and music organizations today are calling for reforms of the broken Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). 

WASHINGTON—The United States Copyright Office recently issued its report on the ‘making available’ right in the United States.

RIAA joined with the National Music Publishers Association in our submission to the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator to promote important steps that can be taken to protect music creators from theft in the digital age. That submission can be found here.

We have submitted our recommended list of “notorious markets” to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) as part of its annual request for information on overseas sites and services.

The report targets Russia’s hosting of vKontakte & other illegal sites as a clear example of lax intellectual property laws.

The FCC is considering a petition that would weaken certain transparency requirements for the sponsorship of music programming.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representatives have added a new focus on companies that register domain names worldwide.