Beach Boys's Mike Love speaks at signing.
Focuses on updating music copyright law to be current with the streaming era. It also will hopefully mean more royalties for artists and songwriters.
The Music Modernization Act was unanimously passed by both the House and the Senate. The bill, which is officially named the Orrin G. Hatch Music Modernization Act, streamlines the process for music licensing and updates rules about royalties for streaming music.
The goal is to ensure that both artists and songwriters are compensated for this method of listening. It also creates a publicly accessible database to make it easier to discern who should be paid for a particular song.