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H.R.4137 - College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007
- Anonymous : I am interested in H. R. Bill 4137 as I have three grandchildren "bothers and sister" that graduated in May 2008 and have approximately $20,000.00 debt each. Surely they can qualify for some help. What are the qualifications?
- salaud : What a crock. I will need more lube with the peer-to-peer part to begin thinking about the merits of the loan things.
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H.R.4789 - Performance Rights Act
- floorburns : Should we pay you to play music or should you pay us? IF radio went black how would you get your music played? I haven't talked to anybody in the radio business that thinks playing without paying is right. They just want to pay a fair share according to their incomes. Non-Commercials really take a hit on these royalties. Most have a varied format that rarely includes 24/7 music. And because we are small stations we are left out of the equations and have no voice. Let's see, singer gets a cut, songwriter gets a cut, label gets a cut, OK how about the guitar player, backup singer, sound man, light man, hair dresser, the guy that takes out all the brown M&M's, Fender-Gibson guitars, or wait, how about MY RADIO station that played that song and HELP made it a Big hit. Don't send me anymore demo's, emails wanting to send demo's, phone calls wanting to send demo's. Does this sound like a free ride to you?
- floorburns : Satellite radio has also passed on to each subscriber a $2.99 a month performance fee, as of June of 2009. Radio stations don't have that recourse. As far as a cap @ 1.5 million dollars, get serious, small radio, especially non-commercial stations do not come close to that. My small non-commercial station as of last years 100% performance rate increase from BMI and ASCAP is now paying almost 30% of our Gross donations for performance fees. IF there needs to be a fee payed let it be based on Gross yearly receipts not population. My station pays the same fees, with, and this is stretching the census, is 7,000 people, as does a station up to 299,000 people. IS this fair?
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