Dion Warwick appeared on capital hill on Tuesday to urge legislators to support the Performance Royalty Act.
"I'm sure you all thought that I walked on by with my little check in hand," Warwick said in a reference to her popular tune "Walk on By." "I wish I had, but all I did was walk on by."
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Senator Conyers had a good take on the measure supporting peforming musicians, who currently get paid nothing for performing their music on broadcast radio:
"They work and they don't get paid," Conyers said after the event. "That's involuntary servitude. They don't even get any choice of whether they want to work or not — they just take their work product."
The event was sponsored by the Music First coalition. Please check out their website, here.
For a better perspective on this issue, view this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5WWzD8Jycg
Incidently, you will not hear this view or perspective on a broadcast radio station.
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