New Airplay Changes Possible

Music industry insider Moses Avalon has alerted me to possible new changes to the broken Performance Rights Act, which would give payments to performers rather than just songwriters for terrestrial broadcasts. To my thinking, this will mean an uptick in both cover tunes and in new collaborations between non-performing writers and recording artists, as bands in the past have actively protected this revenue stream by adamantly doing their own material. In fact, some U.S. bands have previously gone so far as signing with foreign labels in order to skirt this limitation.