NJ governor signs music-licensing legislation

Nation's Restaurant News, Nov 18, 1996

TRENTON, N.J. - Gov. Christine Whitman has signed legislation regulating the way music-licensing agencies collect copyright fees in New Jersey after twice vetoing similar proposals.

The new law requires that performing-right societies - such as the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers - post on the Internet lists of songs to which they have the rights and to disclose the terms of discounts the societies provide to other proprietors in the same county.

Although New Jersey was the first state to introduce such legislation in April 1994, some 19 other states since have passed laws governing music-licensing collection practices.

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