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RIAA’s comments can be viewed here: RIAA Filing With USTR On US-Japan Trade Agreement

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RIAA’s filing can be viewed here: RIAA Filing With US International Trade Commission On Digital Trade

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Currently, legacy artists enjoy no federal right to be paid by digital radio services for recordings made before 1972. Artists and record labels argue that some state laws, such as those in California, do provide protections for those pre-1972 recordings.  The artist listed above lent their names and voices to a powerful amicus filing in the case of Flo & Eddie (the Turtles) vs Pandora. Currently the California Supreme Court is considering whether or not a pre-’72 performance right exists in that state. The filing tells the story of California’s profound musical history and the artists that helped shape it, as told by the artists to veteran music journalist Steve Hochman (who penned the brief after many interviews). RIAA also filed a joint amicus brief in the case along with indie label trade association A2IM and indie label ABKCO.

Separately, the entire music community supports pending federal legislation, the CLASSICS Act, which would – once and for all – extend a federal performance right and compensation to those pre-1972 recordings.

The artists’ filing can be viewed here: Artist Amicus CA Supreme Court Filing

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In effect, those few tech associations are asking you to use trade agreements to prevent our Congress from legislating for the future. Just as some tech companies have changed from startups to global incumbents, the digital marketplace has also changed. Our trade agreements should also adapt, while not preventing our Congress from clarifying the original intent of U.S. law to the benefit of U.S. creators. It would be profoundly ironic, let alone fundamentally detrimental, to modernize NAFTA to include an outdated law that reflects a distant digital past, i.e., when NAFTA first entered into force.

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One excerpt of our submission:

“According to one recent report, this safe harbor exemption acts as an enormous subsidy to the dominant incumbent video-streaming service [YouTube], a subsidy worth approximately $650 million to $1 billion annually. This company-specific industrial policy places one incumbent service at a fundamentally unfair advantage over other legitimate music services, which do not receive this enormous discount that was never intended by the legislative drafters, and instead negotiate commercial licenses with rights holders.”

Read the entire filing here.

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