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ADVOCACY YEAR IN REVIEW 2015 ® MovinG MUSIC ADVOCACY & PUBLIC POLICY Advancing the rights of music ADVOCACY YEAR IN REVIEW 2015 creators through advocacy, | education and dialogue MOVING MUSIC 529 14th Street NW, Ste 840 Neil Portnow, President/CEO 2 Washington, D.C. 20045 Phone | 202.662.1285 THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP Email | [email protected] www.grammy.com/advocacy 3 Daryl P. Friedman, Chief Industry, Government & Member Relations Officer Follow us on WELCOME BACK CONGRESS www.facebook.com/GRAMMYAdvocacy 4 The Band Perry joins The Academy for musical briefing www.twitter.com/@GRAMMYAdvocacy FRIENDLIER SKIES FOR MUSICIANS The FAA finalizes rules for flying with instruments CHIEF Industry, GOVERNMENT & 6 MEMBER Relations OFFICER DARYL P. FRIEDMAN GRAMMY WEEK ADVOCACY Special guests enliven advocacy, education briefings ahead of Music’s Biggest Night SENIOR DIRECTOR, ADVOCACY & PUBLIC POLICY 7 TODD DUPLER REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS CONTINUES ROUNDTABLES MANAGER, ADVOCACY CONTENT & Communications Maria Pallante travels to Chapters for copyright discussions JANINE COVENEY 10 EXECUTIVE Assistant GRAMMY CREATORS ALLIANCE LAUNCHES LINDSEY TAYLOR Advocacy coalition of artists, creators announced on 57th GRAMMY telecast 11 Administrative Assistant, ADVOCACY & MEMBERSHIP LACY COWDEN MOVING MUSIC: MILESTONES IN 2015 12 Todd Dupler, Senior Director, Advocacy & Public Policy ADVISORS THE FAIR PLAY FAIR PAY ACT OF 2015 16 Landmark bill introduced just ahead of GRAMMYs on the Hill Legislative Consultant DIANE BLAGMAN 2015 GRAMMYS ON THE HILL AWARDS ADVOCACY COMMITTEE 17 Luminaries gather to salute creator champions BRANDON BUSH, CO-CHAIR HARVEY MASON JR., CO-CHAIR PETER ASHER 2015 GRAMMYS ON THE HILL ADVOCACY DAY ANN MINCIELI Recording Academy members stress fairness during advocacy day 22 NILE RODGERS DAN WARNER 2015 GRAMMYS IN MY DISTRICT Grassroots advocacy day’s sophomore year exceeds expectations JOHN POPPO 26 NEIL PORTNOW DARYL P. FRIEDMAN CONGRESSIONAL COPYRIGHT REVIEW GOES ON TOUR EX-OFFICIO 30 House Judiciary Committee leaves Capitol Hill THE ACADEMY FILES COMMENTS WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WRITERS Organization shares views on PRO consent decrees JANINE COVENEY 31 TODD DUPLER ADVOCACY & PUBLIC POLICY OFFICE EDITOR Advancing the rights of music creators COURTNEY KEMP 32 DESIGN RIKKI POULOS DESIGN COVER | Alicia Keys (center) is presented with The Recording Academy Artists’ Coalition Award by Neil Portnow and PRE-PRESS AND PRINTING first lady Michelle Obama at the 2015 GRAMMYs on the Hill Awards on April 15| PHOTO: Paul Morigi/WireImage.com CHALLENGE GRAPHICS TARA CURTIS The GRAMMY® Award design is a trademark and service mark registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may not be reproduced without permission. EDITORIAL Assistance The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., owns, among others, the following trademarks: National Academy of Recording KIANA BUTLER Arts & Sciences®, The Recording Academy®, GRAMMYs®, GRAMMY Awards®, GRAMMY Hall Of Fame®, Latin Academy of Recording Arts RENÉE FABIAN & Sciences®, The Latin Recording Academy®, MusiCares Foundation®, GRAMMY in the Schools®, and GRAMMY Foundation®. TIM MCPHATE © 2016 The Recording Academy. All rights reserved. Printed on recycled paper 2 | ADVOCACY YEAR IN REVIEW | 2015 MOVING MUSIC Neil Portnow PRESIDENT/CEO ithout question, music has the power to move us. But throughout 2015, music itself moved. How can that be? Looked at from a number of angles, we can see the movement. W And in many cases, the moving of music has been overdue. Now that many of the music industry’s long-established operating practices are far less effective and its aging business architecture has grown unstable, the financial security of music’s creative inhabitants is threatened. Music is in dire need of brand new “housing.” Music must move out of its old dwellings and into a contemporary high-tech space whose landlords treat its makers fairly. Our business must be served by more efficient, more relevant policies that meet the parameters of a fast-paced digital age. Compelled by these pressing concerns, The Recording Academy has played an integral role in moving both discussions and actions forward on new policies to improve conditions for creators. As a primary player in the discussions on Capitol Hill that resulted in the introduction of the Fair Play Fair Pay Act Of 2015 just two days before GRAMMYs on the Hill, The Recording Academy moved music forward. By establishing the GRAMMY Creators Alliance, giving our best and brightest an opportunity to influence policy that benefits creators and artists at every level, The Recording Academy moved music forward. Most impressively, The Recording Academy moved music by expanding the second annual GRAMMYs in My District Lobby Day — registering 1,650 Academy members. The Oct. 14, 2015, event broke advocacy engagement out of the confines of Washington, D.C., and brought it directly to hundreds of voting districts. This energized advo- cate pool made a mighty noise by visiting congressional offices in every corner of the country and generated more than 1,000 tweets in a single day. This unprecedented event proved that The Recording Academy’s strength is spread beyond the music meccas of Los Angeles, Nashville and New York, and that The Academy can move music policy through innovative grassroots effort. As the debate about music’s future focuses on copyright reform, that debate was physically moved into new settings. The Academy carried over the listening tour begun in 2014 for Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, during which she has met face-to-face with creator members via a 2015 roundtable in Nashville, Tenn. As the House Judiciary Committee continued its ongoing review of copyright, Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) announced the committee’s own multicity listening tour, meeting with creators in Nashville, Tenn., Santa Clara, Calif., and Los Angeles by the close of 2015. And now, thanks to the work of The Academy with other music advocacy groups, music can move through the air with greater ease, as new guidelines were finalized by the Federal Aviation Administration for musicians flying with their instruments. Moving music to new heights of parity and fairness — as well as creative excellence — is a primary mission of The Recording Academy. With the support of our members, strategic partners and from Congress, we will keep moving music forward in 2016 and beyond. Kind Regards, Neil Portnow THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP Daryl P. Friedman CHIEF Industry, GOVERNMENT & MEMBER Relations OFFICER ’m not a fan of overused clichés, but the explosion of activism from The Recording Academy’s members conjures up some old standbys: “synergies,” “convergence” and of course, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” I This year, The Academy took unprecedented action by aligning two distinct divisions in the organization for one combined and ambitious mission. The Membership and Advocacy depart- ments joined forces to maximize members’ impact on the fight for creators’ rights. I have the privi- lege of guiding the aligned departments, along with my colleagues Laura Segura Mueller (Senior Managing Director, Membership & Industry Relations) and Todd Dupler (Senior Director, Advocacy & Public Policy), so let me share with you, our members, what we hope to achieve. First, by integrating members into everything we do in advocacy, we seek greater engage- ment. We’ll be able to provide more opportunities for you to take action, join your fellow creators and speak directly to policymakers. We saw this occur with sold-out GRAMMYs on the Hill events and record online activism. But one example proves more than any other that when called upon to help your community, you answer the call. Thanks to the herculean effort of our Chapters by both staff and advocacy team captains, GRAMMYs in My District grew at a remarkable rate from the previous year. The program’s first-year participation was just more than 100 people. In 2015, our second year, 1,650 of you raised your hands to advocate to your legislators. Second, with our membership team more fully integrated into our advocacy efforts, new educa- tional opportunities were created for our members. Chapters held GRAMMY Town Halls. The Producers & Engineers Wing’s GRAMMY Week event served as the launching pad for the AMP Act. Our member website, GRAMMYPro.com, highlighted advocacy blogs and hosted tools to engage with Congress. Finally, we’ve developed ways to get more frequent input from our members, input that serves as our most important guidepost. At Chapter events, online and through intimate forums such as our new Managers Think Tank, Academy members help inform our strategy and positions. A National Advocacy Committee of elected Trustees — who are also songwriters, performers and studio pro- fessionals — uses the input to craft our official positions. Prominent Academy members even join us in our public filings to government agencies, as you will read in these pages. By joining the forces of Membership and Advocacy, we can have an ongoing dialogue so our initiatives reflect the needs of working creators. In the months since The Academy formalized this restructure, we’ve already seen tremendous results. We hope you have, too. By acknowledging that our 25,000 members are also 25,000 advo- cates, we created a powerful force in advocacy in 2015. And, if you’ll forgive one more cliché, the best is yet to come. Sincerely, Daryl P. Friedman 4 | ADVOCACY YEAR IN REVIEW | 2015 THE BAND PERRY JOINS THE RECORDING ACADEMY TO WELCOME BACK CONGRESS ROWN K Event with Recording Arts & ENNY B Sciences Congressional Caucus REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OHIO) GREETS THE BAND PErrY’S NEIL PErrY, AS FELLOW BAND MEMBERS KIMBERLY AND REID PErrY LOOK ON. THE GROUP EMBArkED ON draws lawmakers, staff ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS WITH LAWMAKERS FACILITATED BY THE RECORDING ACADEMY’S ADVOCACY & PUBLIC POLICY OFFICE AFTER THEIR PERFORMANCE AND brIEFING AT THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER Jan. 13, 2015 • Capitol Visitor Center WASHINGTON, D.C.

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