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Dear Professional Songwriter,
The Copyright Revision Act of 1976 includes a provision granting songwriters the right to recapture the copyrights to their songs. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT. The copyrights to your songs may not be gone forever. Although the specifics are complicated, generally speaking, songs you signed away after 1978 are eligible to be recaptured after 35 years; songs you signed away before 1978 are eligible to be recaptured after 56 years.
This could be one of the most important matters of your career, for you and your heirs.
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Anti-Piracy Legislation Postponed - What’s next? |
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Dear
Songwriters:
Over
the past two weeks legislation to combat online piracy has suffered serious
setbacks. First, some key provisions of both the Protect IP ACT (U.S. Senate)
and the Stop Online PIracy Act or SOPA (U.S. House of Representatives) were
removed. Then, Congress was deluged with millions of communications after
popular websites went dark this week in protest of both anti-piracy bills and
support for both acts dwindled dramatically. Finally, today the legislation was
postponed. As we await the next steps in Congress I want to make some
very important points.
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Blackburn Introduces Important Music Tax Legislation |
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn of TN has introduced legislation that will fix a glitch in the U.S. Tax Code that could have severe unitended consequences on the sale of song catalogues and could impact songwriter-publisher deals that involve catalogue sales. Rep. Blackburn was the introducing sponsor of the Songwriters Tax Simplification Reauthorization Act and was joined by the entire Tennessee House delgation and other sponsors. A Senate companion bill will be introduced later this month. Congresswoman Blackburn, a champion for America's songwriters, is one of only a handful of recipients of NSAI's prestigious White Hat award for her lifetime of work on behalf of songwriters and composers. See more information about the legislation and her statement from 11/03/2011 on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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