{"id":6042,"date":"2016-05-30T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/05\/30\/creators-urge-congress-to-reform-music-licensing-on-ascap-stand-with-songwriters-advocacy-day-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T04:58:17","slug":"creators-urge-congress-to-reform-music-licensing-on-ascap-stand-with-songwriters-advocacy-day-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/05\/30\/creators-urge-congress-to-reform-music-licensing-on-ascap-stand-with-songwriters-advocacy-day-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Creators Urge Congress to Reform Music Licensing on ASCAP \u201cStand With Songwriters\u201d Advocacy Day in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/635825817\/desmond.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"264\" \/><br \/>On May 18th, some of the country\u2019s top songwriters and composers  advocated for important reforms to outdated federal music licensing laws  and regulations as part of ASCAP\u2019s \u201cStand with Songwriters\u201d Advocacy Day in Washington, DC.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In their meetings on Capitol Hill, ASCAP members discussed the  challenges facing songwriters in the digital music age and urged  policymakers to update the WWII-era federal laws that regulate how  songwriters license their works.<\/p>\n<p>They brought several \u201c#StandWithSongwriters petition guitars\u201d signed  by a sampling of ASCAP\u2019s more than 575,000 songwriter, composer and  music publisher members, including: Erica Campbell, Pat Benatar, LaShawn  Daniels, James Fauntleroy, Nate Ruess of fun., OMI and Adam  Schlesinger.<\/p>\n<p>ASCAP members underscored the critical importance of updating the  performing rights organization\u2019s consent decree with the Department of  Justice, originally created in 1941 and last updated before the  introduction of the iPod in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings followed the \u201cWe Write the Songs\u201d concert at the Library  of Congress, sponsored by The ASCAP Foundation. The event featured  performances by popular ASCAP members, who were introduced by Members of  Congress, including: Brian McKnight, Monica, Brett James, MoZella,  Priscilla Renea, Randy Goodrum, Desmond Child and Jennifer Higdon.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation of ASCAP members participating in the Congressional office visits also included ASCAP Board members Dan Foliart, Wayland Holyfield, Dean Kay, James Kendrick, Leeds Levy, Irwin Z. Robinson and Alex Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ASCAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18th, some of the country\u2019s top songwriters and composers advocated for important reforms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}