New and Improved Performance Rights Act Hearing -- Now with More Witnesses!

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Kevin Goldberg

The scheduled -- and then cancelled --  House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Performance Rights Act is back on.  The Committee website says it will now be held on Tuesday, March 10 at 10:00 a.m.  Even better: RBR claims to know the identity of some of the witnesses for the broadcasters (Steve Newberry and Larry Patrick). 

As that RBR article notes, the Local Radio Freedom Act, the nonbinding resolution demonstrating opposition to creation of a performance right applicable to over-the-air radio, now has 135 co-sponsors.  Only 83 more to go...

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