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This concurrent resolution supports the Local Radio Freedom Act by expressing Congress's stance against imposing new performance fees on local radio stations for playing music. The resolution highlights the long-standing mutually beneficial relationship between local radio and the recording industry, emphasizing that radio stations provide free publicity and promotion for musicians through airplay, interviews, and concert promotions. It argues that imposing performance fees would cause severe economic hardship for thousands of local radio stations and other small businesses that play music, potentially jeopardizing their ability to provide essential local services like news, weather information, and public service announcements. The resolution specifically urges Congress to refrain from implementing any new fees, taxes, royalties, or charges related to the public performance of sound recordings on local radio broadcasts, both for radio stations and other businesses that play radio broadcasts. The underlying rationale is that the current system has already produced highly innovative broadcasting and music industries, and a new performance fee would disrupt this successful model.

Transportation and Infrastructure

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/8/all-info