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Austin music commissioners debate next steps on performance-rights transparency, propose working group
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a draft letter urging congressional action on transparency and equity in performance-rights organizations (PROs), discussed venue impacts and black-box royalties and considered a special meeting or working group to finalize city input before a May 25 deadline.
Commissioners at the Austin Music Commission on May 5 discussed growing concerns about how performance-rights organizations (PROs) license music and distribute royalties, and aired a draft that would ask Congress for standardized licensing, enhanced transparency and equity assessments.
Commissioner Strickland presented a draft statement the commission could submit to Congress, saying the proliferation of PROs and opaque royalty distribution practices disproportionately harm independent and underrepresented artists. “We are concerned about the proliferation of PROs, the transparency of licensing royalty distribution, the impact that it has on local…
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