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WASHINGTON – The Democratic Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to elect Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) as Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee.

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WASHINGTON – Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that he would be retiring at the end of his current term in December 2018.

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.

Reports surfaced this week that SiriusXM will soon raise prices for many of its satellite radio packages in the coming months. 

ICYMI: Forbes recently published an op-ed by our CEO Cary Sherman.

As fans increasingly turn to online streaming as the primary way to enjoy music, it’s more and more important for artists and the labels to receive fair royalties from streaming music sites.

Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Marsha Blackburn stood with members of the music community today to launch the “Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015."

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced the “Songwriter Equity Act.”