Reported in 1965, every time it is played, Aretha Franklin doesnt receive a thing. She would be paid if she were a songwriter. Girl recorded by the temptations, they dont receive a dime of compensation from pandora every time this popular song is played. If youre talking my payment to the record label, that is great. If they are a songwriter they will be paid. A change is going to come, stop in the name of love, the failure to pay recording artists of pre1972 recordings is not a fair business practice, and in the context of the overall discussion, it is a problem that should be voluntarily resolved, but if it is not, congress should act. Let me turn to sirius xm. I believe you do not pay performers you are in litigation, i trying ton california prevent litigation under california state law, right . There is no Public Performance under state law either. I believe that you stated your company granting a pre1972 Public Performance right would produce a pure windfall to recording artists w
A fellow at the strategic and International Studies and he has a myriad of books laying out his worldview and he has been a frequent guest of morning joe and his works are published in russian and english and this is similar to Foreign Affairs and also fiona hill, who is a former National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia. Really quite recently. She is head of the center of u. S. And europe at brookings and she is coauthor of a recent book called mr. Vladimir putin operative in the kremlin, which the review said was not just another Vladimir Putin biography but a psychological portrait. So we only have an hour and we want to save 20 minutes or so for audience questions. So lets get to the question. Russia never left the middle east. The middle east is right next to russia and the first of all, i think the russians have a defensive interest and if there is an explosion in the middle east, it will spread throughout the region and that money may involve saying goodbye, but it co
Shows how much more quiet it is this morning with no real fog and a now low clouds and midtoupper level clouds and lowtomid 60s for most of us and a few upper 60s around antioch and live more and santa cruz and morgan hill. Clouds and the best chance of a stray shower are across the north bay today. Now the morning commute. Mike . In novato near the landfill there is a truck that losing debris in the back so that is causing a mess on the freeway. We have c. H. P. Heading out there to do a traffic break is all lanes are stopped for a time southbound along 101 drive through theft oh. In san jose, we have a problem with a big rig dragging something that is causing sparks, tankers and sparks are never a good combination but the traffic is moving along fine and we have slowing on 101 headed away from the nimitz to 680 280 split. 280 in san jose away from 17 is quiet and accidentflee. In Belmont Police are searching for a missing 16 yearold teen with autism. He was last seen on the campus of
Counts. Another one for obstruction of justice. Bob mcdonnell becomes the first governor or former governor in the history of virginia to be convicted of a crime and his wife becomes the first former first lady to suffer the same fate. Late they are morning we talk about whether the verdict could inspire similar prosecutions elsewhere. And the name Chris Christie comes to mind wooe. Well get into it later with a former prosecutor. For now we dig deep near why and how the jury reached the verdict that it reached. Last night one of the mcdonnell jurors, kathleen carmody. Told rach Rachel Maddow what they thought of the defense, that they couldnt conspire because the marriage was in bad shape. I did not doubt there was strain in the marriage and stress. And that mrs. Mcdonnell was having a difficult time adjusting as first lady of virginia. However, they remained under the same roof during all this time up until the time of the trial. Were under the same roof. They vacationed together. We
Good morning from washington. Im peter alexander. Its tuesday, september 9th, 2014. We expect the latest ebola patient to arrive in atlanta. We want to begin with the white house finalizing a plan to beat isis. Aides insisting president obama will go wherever is necessary. But the president want this is to be an international effort. And hes dispatching his secretary of state, john kerry, to visit with key arab allies, jordan and saudi arabia. I will travel to the middle east to continue to build the broadest possible Global Partners to confront, degrate and defeat isol. U. S. Officials including kerry hailed iraqs formation of a unity government late monday as what they describe as a major milestone. President obama called the new iraqi Prime Minister who committed to work with all in iraq. Many sunnis and kurds remain skeptical. Defense Officials Say a round of deadly air strikes in iraq over the last 48 hours killed 60 to 70 isis fighters. Will the president extend the strikes into