If passed the lawyers will get the money plus foreign corporations mostly. The music business is doing awful so they are extorting the radio stations which aren’t doing well either. This is just more RIAA money grubbing. Their lawyers and lobbyists are relentless
Isn’t it great to pass a law that brinsg you free money? The present system has been around for a long time and is good, it needs no changing
There are also concerns among talk radio stations that play bumper music. They already pay (Rush will attest to this) but this allows them to double dip.
You don’t need to play a whole song to get paid. Never did. In the 1940s a band on radio (filling in a moment during a comedy radio show) would play cues from different songs to keep them in the “hit parade”.