For decades musicians have sought performance royalties for radio airplay, and the Performance Rights Act has been winding its way through Congress for nearly a year.
This non-profit performance rights organization has been designated by the U.S. Copyright Office as the sole administrative entity for collecting royalties from streaming music (Sirius XM, Pandora, etc.).
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Led by the NAB, broadcasters including Clear Channel Radio, Emmis Communications and National Public Radio have formed the Free Radio Alliance in opposition to the Performance Rights Act.
Of course it was important for iJukebox to build a slick interface and features but the real challenge was in licensing recorded music, publishing, and performance rights and implementing a transactional system that is painless for users.
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Hillary Rosen, president the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a performance-rights group, disagrees.
Nor is the Turks' general human-rights performance quite as bleakly incurable as their critics assume.
Geneva - The International Labor Organization (ILO) censored the Venezuelan government's performance for violating the rights of employers and their associations.
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In order to identify, prevent and mitigate adverse human rights impacts, and to account for their performance, business enterprises should carry out human rights due diligence.
That's a short wait for what could deliver a serious boost to game performance, not to mention bragging rights.
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These include pay, overtime, shift allowances, holiday pay and bonuses attributable to individual performance, as well as maternity rights.
Today in The New York Times, Culbert links his hatred of performance reviews with the battle over union rights in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
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Despite the improvements, some human-rights organizations remain unhappy with the performance of the police force.
In our continued quest for better corporate performance according to social, environmental and human rights measures, we often forget our power as consumers.
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Mr Gul's party has pledged to spend its term in office tackling corruption and human rights abuses, and improving Turkey's economic performance.
Some analysts believe that Sinopec's lacklustre performance is due more to concerns about the company than human-rights considerations in Sudan.
He will also read from the "I Have a Dream" speech of civil rights activist Martin Luther King during the orchestra's performance of Alexander Miller's Let Freedom Ring.
When the SCLC needed money, it was Coretta Scott King who came to the fore, organizing a series of Freedom Concerts telling the story of the civil rights movement through a combination of prose, poetry and performance.
The new EOS body will now take over the PRS role for gathering fees for music that is broadcast, while PRS retains the rights to gather other music use - such as live performance, online or jukeboxes.
Tonight the President and First Lady will host the "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" concert, featuring songs from the Civil Rights Movement as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings with participants including Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and more.
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Maybe they were a little repressed and paranoid, maybe a little go-slow on civil rights, but without question the 1950s were a time of rocketing economic performance.
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The process should include assessing actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating and acting upon the findings, and tracking as well as communicating their performance.
Two scholars from America's Harvard University, Robert Rotberg and Rachel Gisselquist, are helping Mr Ibrahim assess the nominees and measure countries' performance by such criteria as safety and security, rule of law and corruption, participation and human rights, economic opportunity, and human development.
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