1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Protecting the Rights of Musicians Act”.
Protecting the Rights of Musicians Act
A BILL
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to deny the right to grant retransmission consent to a television broadcast station if an AM or FM radio broadcast station licensed to the same licensee transmits a sound recording without providing compensation for programming.
2. Effect of certain radio transmissions on right to grant television retransmission consent
Section 325(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325(b)(2)) is amended—
in subparagraph (D), by striking “or” at the end;
in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and
by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:
“(F) to retransmission of the signal of a television broadcast station if the licensee of such station is also the licensee of an AM or FM radio broadcast station and, during the term of the license for such television broadcast station in which such retransmission occurs, such licensee has transmitted a sound recording over such radio station without providing compensation for all programming carried over the signal.”