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Rachel Leads GRAMMY Advocacy Meetings with Lawmakers and Music Creators in Las Vegas

_DSC8791 Rachel Stilwell recently joined members of the Recording Academy in Las Vegas for GRAMMY "District Advocate" meetings with members of the House of Representatives as well as candidates for the House from both sides of the aisle.  Rachel helped lead these educational "District Advocate" events, as part of the Recording Academy's ongoing efforts to promote artists' rights and copyright law reform. All photos by Curtis McElhinney (click on photos to enlarge). _DSC8813 Music professionals celebrate a successful run of five bipartisan meetings with lawmakers in two days. From left front row: Pat Caddick, Kaya Jones, DJ Chris Cox, Zoe Thrall, Bobby Ferrari.  Second row: Pat Caddick, Andrew Freeman, Rachel Stilwell.  Top row: Al Ketter, Mac Reynolds,...
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Billboard: “Phone Recordings of Concerts Are More Than Just Annoying, They’re Potentially Illegal.” Rachel Stilwell & Makenna Cox

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In the year preceding his untimely death, Prince forbade audience members from videotaping his live performances. Since then, artists such as Childish GambinoGuns 'N RosesAlicia Keys and The Lumineers each have required audience members to temporarily forfeit use of their mobile devices by placing them in locked pouches during their concerts. Fans may have mixed reactions to an artist banning video camera use during concerts, but most concert goers don’t realize that recording a live musical performance without the consent of the artist is illegal. Although artists usually have no interest in suing their fans, musicians actually have a legal right to expressly forbid audiences from recording their live performances. Musicians and fans have generally been unaware of such laws because...
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Billboard: “Radio Industry Group Wants FCC to Eliminate Competition Rules Limiting Ownership”

car-radio-a-billboard-1548 Billboard's Ed Christman analyzed recent efforts by the National Association of Broadcasters to convince the Federal Communications Commission to further deregulate local AM/FM radio ownership caps. The article also highlights Rachel's arguments on behalf of music industry groups the musicFIRST Coalition and Future of Music Coalition.  The gist of comments and replay comments by musicFIRST and the Future of Music Coalition: Further consolidation at the local AM/FM level would be against the interests of the listeners, small broadcasters, and especially music creators. Read the full article here:  ...
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