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In response to
"can someone link me basics here? -- nm"
by
safari for windows *loves* mandy lane
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i don't have the link but . . .
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under current copyright law, you can hold copyrights in two things: the song (the "notes") and the recording (the "record"). except in rare rare cases, when an artist signs with a record label, the label gets those rights. so that when a song is played on radio, the royalties for that play go back to the label, not the artist.
a performer royalty would pay the artist, whether they had retained ownership of the song/recording copyrights.
corporations (radio stations particularly) don't want to pay an additional royalty.
which is pretty rich considering how often they trot out the "protecting the artists" argument when lobbying against loosening copyright laws for things like internet radio.
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