Who Should Pay For Music On The Radio?

“This summer’s lobbying effort by a new recording industry-sponsored group, MusicFirst, has breathed new life into the drive to make radio pay artists — and not just writers and publishers — for playing their songs, but the issue is as old as Top 40. What’s different now is that the music industry, in deep trouble, is casting around for ways to make up for the steep decline in revenue that hit the recording business after digital downloading changed the business’s basic structure.”