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RE: Nancy Pelosi for Performance Tax
(04-17-2010 08:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: The government should stay the f'ck out of this. The playing of music over the radio should simply be some sort of agreement between the radio station, the record label, and the artist. In other words, let the market sort it out. What's next, taxing the music played at ball games and malls?
This.
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RE: Nancy Pelosi for Performance Tax
(04-19-2010 06:17 AM)Paul M Wrote: (04-18-2010 11:32 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (04-17-2010 08:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Well damn. I don't have any more rep points to give you.
Then give 'em to Ronald Reagan.
Sorry, I don't like the birth of deficit tax cuts that was Reagan.
He talked a supreme game when he supported Goldwater ... but what he did in office is a 180 degree turn from that.
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RE: Nancy Pelosi for Performance Tax
(04-19-2010 09:18 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (04-19-2010 06:17 AM)Paul M Wrote: (04-18-2010 11:32 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (04-17-2010 08:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Well damn. I don't have any more rep points to give you.
Then give 'em to Ronald Reagan.
Sorry, I don't like the birth of deficit tax cuts that was Reagan.
He talked a supreme game when he supported Goldwater ... but what he did in office is a 180 degree turn from that.
I was just referring to the quote. It was from Reagan. Since you bring up deficits, tax cuts don't create them, never minding that cuts increase revenue. Spending does.
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04-19-2010 09:41 AM |
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RE: Nancy Pelosi for Performance Tax
(04-19-2010 08:37 AM)Rebel Wrote: (04-17-2010 08:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: The government should stay the f'ck out of this. The playing of music over the radio should simply be some sort of agreement between the radio station, the record label, and the artist. In other words, let the market sort it out. What's next, taxing the music played at ball games and malls?
This.
This isn't a tax. It is a royalty. It is an intellectual property issue.
Stadiums and malls already pay royalties on the music they play.
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04-19-2010 11:48 AM |
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RE: Nancy Pelosi for Performance Tax
(04-19-2010 11:48 AM)Claw Wrote: (04-19-2010 08:37 AM)Rebel Wrote: (04-17-2010 08:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: The government should stay the f'ck out of this. The playing of music over the radio should simply be some sort of agreement between the radio station, the record label, and the artist. In other words, let the market sort it out. What's next, taxing the music played at ball games and malls?
This.
This isn't a tax. It is a royalty. It is an intellectual property issue.
Stadiums and malls already pay royalties on the music they play.
When the government tells you that if you do X it's gonna cost you X, then it's a tax. The amount of the royalty should be decided by the groups involved, not someone who has nothing to do with anything.
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RE: Nancy Pelosi for Performance Tax
The US is one of the few countries that doesn't pay radio performance royalties (Iran, North Korea, and Iraq are others). The US lacks a reciprocal right to have its artists paid for foreign plays. So, artists are missing out on this income too.
After reading up on this, the money earned would go directly to the artist (I was wrong, I listened to the spin and didn't research), and not funneled through the labels (just like songwriting royalties).
Also, how many of you listen to internet radio? Whether it be Pandora, Sirius-XM, or the live stream of your favorite radio station, these digital transmissions are paying while terrestrial radio is not. Should they still retain this competitive advantage?
In other areas, the PRO's collect $ from selling licenses and pays a percentage to each artist/label based on the # of plays. The bill isn't simple enough to only say "radio must pay performance royalties". It addresses a flat fee of $5K for stations making less than $1.25 million, $1K for public stations, exemptions for religious service broadcasts and "incidental" performances.
So, it appears that the bill is just saying, "you will pay" (after years of saying "you won't pay") instead of saying "you will pay $X". This really isn't as heinous as the National Association of Broadcasters is making it out to be (and this is coming from a guy who wants to own an independent radio station someday).
I want to go on about how the 1996 Telecommunications Act is contributing to this (consolidation of radio ownership where the top 4 owner groups have 50% of the listeners, and the top 10 have 66%, lack of formats, etc.) but I'm already blabbering.
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