TWISTED SISTER - DEE SNIDER Returns To Capitol Hill
April 14, 2016, 8 years ago
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider is in Washington D.C. to push for the Recording Academy’s advocacy day on Capitol Hill, reports Glenn Peoples of Billboard.com.
Snider says his focus is getting terrestrial radio to pay "some sort of royalty" for the performance of sound recordings. It’s the issue in the Fair Play, Fair Pay Act introduced in Congress last year. Radio broadcasters are predictably against the bill, often pointing to benefits to labels and artists such as the promotional value of airplay. Snider is dismissive. "Yeah. Yeah. They’ve been saying that for literally decades and it’s tired and the rest of the world recognizes the artist deserves to be paid when the music is played."
But to Snider, any form of creativity is worth protecting. "There’s so much work to be done on the part of not just musicians and musical artists but creators in general," he concludes. "And by creators I mean anybody. An inventor. A tech guy. Anybody’s who’s created, thought of, conjured, made something happen out of nothing, deserves to have their rights protected. It’s even tougher than winning the lottery these days to achieve something in these fields and to not get your just rewards is just an injustice."
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