This is a departure from the past when the different sectors were often involved in lobbying against each other.
With three pieces of music legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress, the various sectors of the industry have pulled together to endorse each other's key initiatives.
The Music Modernization Act of 2017, which will create a blanket mechanical license among other things, largely benefits the music publishing sector and digital services; the Classics Act, which will establish master royalty payments for pre-1972 recording for digital performances, benefits record labels and artists; while the AMP Act, codifies into law for record producers and engineers the right to receive royalties for digital performances, which benefits studio professionals.
Those bills are supported by the the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), the Recording Academy, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), the Songwriters of North America (SONA), The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), the Production Music Association (PMA), the Church Music Publishers Association (CMPA), the Music Publishers Association (MPA), the Council of Music Creators (CMC), the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), MusicAnswers, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), SAG-AFTRA, the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), SoundExchange, SX Works, the Administrators of Gospel Music (AGM) and the Music Managers Forum U.S.