MCNA joins with the Songwriters Guild of America, Society of Composers & Lyricists and board members, Rick Carnes and Ashley Irwin, to represent the independent songwriter community.
Today, we respectfully ask the CRB to modify or decline to approve in its present form – as a necessity for providing economic and legal justice for music creators – the proposed settlement concerning subpart B mechanical royalties submitted by the vertically integrated multinational recording and publishing companies individually known throughout the music industry as Universal, Warner and Sony music companies (the “Majors”), and by their related trade association National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and its allied organization, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).
The current proposal remains seriously and unnecessarily flawed and biased against the rights of creators to fair compensation amounting to the loss of tens of millions of dollars in creators revenues, making its unmodified adoption far less protective of the interests of the US and global songwriter and composer communities than it easily can and absolutely should be.”
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