What is H.R. 848
H.R. 848 or The Performance Royalty Rights Act can be summarized in the following:
Performance Rights Act – Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters; (2) establish a flat annual fee in lieu of payment of royalties for individual terrestrial broadcast stations with gross revenues of less than $1.25 million and for noncommercial, public broadcast stations,(3) grant an exemption from royalty payments for broadcasts of religious services and for incidental uses of musical sound recordings;and (4) grant terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings a per program license option. Click here to read the full text of the bill…
If this bill is allowed to pass, it will put Black Owned Radio out of business. Browse the site and see what you can do to help Cathy Hughes save Black Radio!
Black Radio is a Vital part of our Community.Thank You Cathy Hughes for making this EFFORT.
Dear Friends
I wholeheartedly support the efforts of Cathy Hughes in opposition to HR 484. I see this legislation as a covert transfer of wealth from Black businesses and communities into the hands of disinterested foreign businessmen by a hand full of people in congress.
Given the harsh economic asphyxiation of our communities here at home, it is not possible for me to accept the harmful and callous effects of this legislation. We should not allow our elected officials that we send to congress to protect our common wealth, to become the nefarious little poodles of foreign interests, bent on destroying our common wealth.
Finally, as a member of the broadcast industry, I see HR 848 as a grave threat to freedom itself. We need radio not only to entertain and amuse, but to arouse, educate, and inform the citizenry on issues critical to the survival of liberty. As President Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was or never will be.”
Andre Michael Eggelletion
Host: “The Andre Eggelletion Experience” http://www.ustalknetwork.com
Host: “The Andre Eggelletion Show” http://www.850WFTL.com
Author: “Thieves in the Temple”
Author: “Where the Right Went Wrong on National Security (and the Left too)”
I dont understand this bill. Congress is always tryin to take from the black community just days from apologizing for slavery. They want to take our radio too. Can you say slavery of the 21st century? Congress has had it in for us since we got a right to vote and a civil right act. But history tells us that in the 1700′s, the democrats were once republicans and the GOP were democrats. Interesting isn’t it? We are a democracy, not a republic.
man forget this bill yo
leave black radio alone!!!! keep them taxes looooow
hi friends
taking away black radio will be a big imapct on our nation, people have everyday issues and sometimes musics is there confinement,speaking for myself i love to turn on the radio and listen to music and my mind is in a calm place so taking that away is taking away life, music is part of our soul somewhat, it takes people on totally different level brings smiles, joy, laughter, and fun so lets keep our black radio
This is BS!! NO TO HR 848 NO!!!!
Things should be thought about. Iam against the bill that was passed.