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Music Trade Organizations, Guilds, PROs Urge Congress to Extend Relief for Songwriters, Composers

July 20, 2020

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by Michele Amabile Angermiller

Music Trade Organizations, Guilds, PROs Urge Congress to Extend Relief for Songwriters, Composers
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Music Trade Organizations, Guilds, PROs Urge Congress to Extend Relief for Songwriters, Composers

“With the end of July marking the end of enhanced unemployment benefits, working songwriters and composers are facing another financial hurdle, to the tune of as much as $600 a week in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.

Anticipating another crisis moment, performance rights organizations ASCAP, BMI and SESAC joined together with trade orgs National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), Songwriters of North America (SONA), Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) and Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), to deliver a letter to Congress urging the continuation of benefits for self-employed individuals and small businesses in the next government stimulus package.”

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