, the National Music Publishers Association and virtually every major music organization has written to Congress to ask for releief for the music community due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter, which appears in full below, urged that they immediately pass legislation to provide additional relief desperately needed by the many artists, musicians, engineers, producers, and venues who bring live music to the public.
In the letter, the groups specifically ask Congress to renew and extend Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation; pass the RESTART Act; fix the CARES Act by passing the Mixed Earner Pandemic Unemployment Act; expand the Saves Our Stages Act; expand employer retention tax credits and pass a 100% COBRA premium subsidy; and pass the Performing Artist Tax Parity Act and the HITS Act.
Second, Congress must fix an unintended error in the CARES Act by passing the Mixed Earner Pandemic Unemployment Act. Mixed earners, or gig workers with a minimum amount of W-2 income, have been excluded from Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, and overly burdensome PUA documentation requirements are out of step with the workplace realities of the gig economy.
How about NO! The industry made these musicals into slaves by not giving them their due over sales etc and force them to make money at concerts etc outside of the recording contract. Change the contract and let them make money.
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