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The Performance Rights Act – which would require radio stations to pay royalties to artists and labels for songs they broadcast over the air – will be reintroduced into the new 111th Congress this week, according to a letter signed by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Songwriters already receive royalties when their songs are broadcast but the legislation is aimed at ending the exemption that terrestrial radio currently enjoys from paying royalties to artists, musicians and master recordings copyright owners.