"The continued rise in public performance royalties reflects a growing demand for music," he said.

Radio and television, meanwhile, are likely to continue providing the bulk of performance royalties.

Not directly, of course; instead, they want the government to force radio stations to pay a performance royalty for the music that they use.

Interesting as it is, though, it's unlikely to distract Congressional attention from the fact that radio, alone of the broadcasters, doesn't pay a performance royalty.

The details of payments for the performance royalty are still being fine tuned.

(i really did get some of his performance royalties by accident, but somebody caught on and i had to give them back!)

In contrast, traditional radio broadcasters pay only publishing royalties and no performance royalties.

The composer and his heirs, however, continued to receive performance royalties under an agreement reached with Ricordi for payment of only $1.

Musicians and music labels have made that abundantly clear by launching a new campaign to press for traditional radio stations to start paying performance royalties.

Rather than splitting performance royalties with a publisher (if their music is played on the radio), they keep it all.