Advocacy in Action

Kelsea Ballerini joins members of Recording Academy™ President/CEO Congress and Recording Academy Neil Portnow calls for updating music Trustees Dan Warner and Fletcher legislation and renewing America’s Foster at a pre-GRAMMY® commitment to the arts at the Reps. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Tom ® Rooney (R-Fla.) reintroduced the AMP Congressional Briefing. 59th GRAMMY Awards . Act (Allocation for Music Producers Act). The Fair Play Fair Pay Act Passage of the act will mark the first time producers is reintroduced in Congress, will be included in copyright and ensure fast, transparent, and direct payment. seeking a performance right on AM/FM radio. This bill was introduced by Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and looks to modernize and harmonize music licensing for sound recording Gov. John Bel Edwards signs the Louisiana Music Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Industry Investment Act into Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) challenge law, expanding the state’s radio with the introduction music production tax of the PROMOTE Act. credit to incentivize job growth in the state’s The act is a direct response to radio’s claim that airplay music industry. provides free promotional value and gives artists the Academy members advocated ability to opt-out of having for the bill Music Industry Day their work used without in Baton Rouge at the permission or compensation. State Capitol. ADVOCACY2017 IN ACTION Keith Urban receives SUPPORTING MUSIC’S CREATORS the Recording Artists’ Coalition® Award at the 19th annual GRAMMYs on the Hill Awards. The Texas Chapter celebrates the GRAMMY winners and enactment of a new anti-piracy nominees converged with members of Congress to law (SB1343). show support for music and the next generation of music creators. The signing came on the heels of the Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Chapter’s third biannual GRAMMY Tom Udall (D-N.M.) were also honored for Music Advocacy Day at the State their contributions to the music community. Capitol, where they educated state lawmakers about the importance of the music industry in Texas. The Georgia Music Investment Act passes, implementing state tax credits to help create music industry jobs in the Peach State. Signed by Gov. Nathan Deal, the law is the result GRAMMYs on the Hill unites 100 music of more than seven years of sustained advocacy by the creators on Capitol Hill for the largest advocacy Recording Academy Atlanta Chapter event representing music creators. and its local advocacy affiliate, Georgia Music Partners. Natalie Grant, Latin duo Jesse & Joy, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, John Popper of Blues Traveler, and blues musician Bobby Rush joined the Academy to fight for the Fair Play Congress says “No” The Register of Copyrights Fair Pay Act, the AMP Act, and arts funding. to the proposed elimination of Selection and Accountability Act the National Endowment for the became law. It was a key lobbying Arts and instead increases the arts point at GRAMMYs on the Hill agency’s funding for FY2017, a key three weeks earlier. ask at GRAMMYs on the Hill. The law elevates the Register of Copyrights—the head of the Copyright Office—to a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate, giving the register a greater independent say over copyright issues..

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