As the House of Representatives tries to walk the line between competing copyright interests in the music industry, advocates for songwriters, record companies and radio providers on Wednesday pointed fingers at each other for problems they see in the song licensing system and the efforts to reform it, giving lawmakers little clarity on a path forward.
Testifying before a House panel, songwriters Rosanne Cash and Paul Williams, as well as representatives of the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Association of Broadcasters, Pandora Media Inc., Sirius XM Holdings Inc. and other organizations, agreed that changes to the licensing system are needed, but they couldn’t settle on which ones. The House Judiciary Committee’s court, intellectual property and the Internet subcommittee heard the testimony as part of its examination of potential changes to the system to address copyrighted material in an industry that continues to struggle with its transition into the digital age.
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