Paying The Performers – What A Concept!

“The growing popularity of satellite and Internet radio is creating a new source of royalties for performing artists… Under traditional copyright law, royalties have gone only to composers and music publishers. The new royalities, from airplay on the fast-growing XM and Sirius satellite services, are being paid to performers and the copyright holder of the recording — generally a record label or, in some cases, the people who lease the master recording.”