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American broadcasters have been using a very antiquated loophole to avoid paying performers a royalty for the songs that they choose to fill their airwaves with. This has been going on for 100 years. American broadcasters characterize their exemption to paying royalties as a "mutually beneficial promotional tool" for performers and broadcasters. They argue that paying artists a royalty for broadcasting their work is “unwarranted,” “unnecessary,” and could be "fatal to radio stations and disrupt radio business models in the long term." So while literally any entity that broadcasts music over the internet is required to pay digital performance royalties for the sound recordings they play, in the USA artists are still not paid a royalty when their songs are broadcast on AM/FM radio. American Broadcasters continue to profit from artists intellectual property.

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