true value of our music. the true value our music brings to the marketplace. thank you for the opportunity to share this with you today. thank you so much. >> thank you, mr. williams. mr. harrison? >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member nadler, chairman goodlatte, ranking member conyers and other members of the committee. pandora appreciate this is opportunity to testify at this important hearing. without question pan do a's delivering tremendous value to listeners, artists, songwriters and the music industry of the 77 million music listeners tuned into pandora last month and listened for an average 22 hours. every month pandora performs 1.5 million songs by more than 100,000 recording artists, 0% of whom were not played onter rest teal radio. pandora' contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to a new royalty stream to artists that did not exist 20 years ago. nine years after launching pandora will celebrate a major milestone later this summer. -- 08%. one billion dollars of total royalties paid. as the co

the one for the underlying musical composition which is the half of the music industry i represent, and the separate and distinct copyright for any sound recording of that song. what is striking is just how different necessary two copyrights are treated under the law and through government regulations. first, copyright law contains antiquated regulations that unfair liddy extort the value of a songwriter's work. the copy wrooit of a song is a property right and should not be regulated by the government unless there's a compelling reason to do so. songs should be valued in the free market just like sound recordings. second, if there is to be regulation, at a minimum, songwriters deserve to be paid a fair-market value. there is no intellectually honest objection toes point. third, congress should reject any attempt to expand compulsory licenses. any additional regulation could have long-term harmful consequences for creators. songwriter's attempt to earn a living through three primary means. recan kwal reproductions, public performances and audio visu visualati visualativisual this is a c

and it's the music of the streets. it's drums, vocals, and dance. so you'd hear in the park, (imitates drumming) (vocalizing) >> hinojosa: and that's the stuff that, okay, you were saying was happening in cuba, but this is now happening in the streets of the south bronx. >> right, right. and this is what the puerto rican community... we inherited afro cuban music through our forefathers, et cetera, from the mambo era, et cetera, et cetera. and they... as we say in spanish, tambor llama, "the drum calls." so imagine listening to that in the projects. i grew up in the melrose projects, 681. in the canyons of the projects you're hearing that not only during the day, but at 3:00 in the morning in the basketball courts, et cetera. and instead of... what i tell people is the difference between our community and, say, somebody living in the suburbs, is in the suburbs, somebody would start calling 911, the cops, say, "hey, there's these people drumming," et cetera. but at 3:00 in the morning in our neighborhoods, people would be going, "yeah, keep it going.

the music was. e songs were written to inspire, uplift and a messages that would resonate with people and give them hope, inspiration. and so that is the reason why the band -- that really was the seed of the philosophy about earth, wind, and fire. >> you say when i said a means an end. you can't use earth, wind, and fire as an means to an end. but you explained in the book. what did you mean by that? >> i always knew that whatever vision or destiny god had for me, this wasn't it. this was a means to whatever that is. i don't know what it is. it's interesting that in my life it's always been like music has been like the pied piper. and then in some ways it's always been a means to just kind of follow my path to my own personal destiny, that god has for me. >> so the love and the joy and the hope that you spread around the world, the humanity that these lyrics reveling in, that ain't enough? there is still something else out there that god has for you. >> i really do believe that it's just a matter of

does this ring true or is it time for taylor swift to face the music? >>> later brewing up business with kraft beer. americans entrepreneurial taste is on tap to brooklyn and beyond. >>> and as we go to break, a look at how the stock market ended the week. >>> this week taylor swift had the music industry buzzing with her wall street journal op-ed. that's right, the 24-year-old surprised everyone by saying there are still profits to be made from albums in spite of piracy, file sharing and streaming. is the songstress right or too optimistic about the future? joining me is mela patell and allen light. welcome, gentlemen, nice to have you here. mela, i'm going to start with you. you disagree with taylor swift. on basically she's being too naive about the way the industry works. tell me what you took issue with in her op-ed? >> i don't think she's being too naive but she's a huge star with a huge fan base that want to pay her for things. and being taylor swift is extraordinary valuable. and when you have that perspective, you can release anything and people

if you talk to the industry they say, people don't want to pay for music. we have to create experiences and -- taylor swift said, my concerts have to be spectacles. they have to be surprising. so you're seeing biggest change in media which happened a decade ago when the ipod came out. the value is all in the physical form so the music itself, the price has fallen to zero. >> do the artists have to rethink or be willing to take less on their product if they do not create that experience that taylor swift is talking about? >> yeah. i think she had a scarce product, the price people are willing to pay will fall to zero and you're seeing it all over the place. >> but i think that, you know, being able to then, turn that into the concert tickets and merchandise and the other extensions of that artist, you know, that obviously, is what drives it. >> i think that has the happier flip side. if you look there's a 16-year-old kid making $25,000 a month in advertising revenue but having a connection to their audience that wants to watch them talk about how to take a se

i am a musician in the san francisco symphony. music has played an incredible, incredibly vital role in my life growing up since the age of 5, and i really, really strongly ask -- ask you to maintain and even increase funding for grants for the arts. we live -- we have such a really, a great diverse and rich community of musicians and artists that live in the city. i think we should maintain the quality and standards that we've spent a lot of years building. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning. i'm ron goldman. i'm the director of education with the san francisco symphony, and first of allied like to thank the board of supervisors for your support and interest in the arts year round. i would also like to also urge and ask for your support for continued arts funding. the programs, the arts environment in san francisco, such a vital part of our city and organizations, art organizations such as the san francisco symphony help to ensure that the arts are provided to every single in the case of our partn

his fans and making new music available. however the current licensing system hasn't changed. many feel that our music licensing laws railroad designed for a world that existed decades ago and have become outdated. music lovers can access music anywhere on an ever changing variety of devices. i may be old, i am old, but i'm also old fashioned in my view. our copyright laws should promote access to music and still protect the interest of copyright holders. i see no reason why we cannot restore this balance. if not, we know consumers will resort to pirate sites on the internet for their respective music. finally, there are some long standing issues in the music business that i feel are important for congress to address. how royalty rates are determined. who pays music royalties and how older music works are treated under federal copyright law. i've also been a friend of broadcasters for some time and i hope that the broadcasters and the music industry can find a way to work together to resolve their common issues. in closing, i did want t

i feel the same about the nukes music and -- i feel the same about the music and yet i don't. is the same technically. the beethoven symphonies we performed with my own markings, that hasn't changed, but i think i infuse the music with a renewed passion that partially stems with the fact that i have fallen in love with the new york philharmonic. this is an extraordinary orchestra. i really adore them. i think that they make the music glow with a vib vibrancy of ther dedication. >> charlie: are you surprised you've fallen in love with them? >> absolutely. >> charlie: that you are or not surprised? >> i am surprised. >> charlie: why? it's a great orchestra and i have had the opportunity to conduct them. >> charlie: this relationship is unique? >> we just seem to understand each other. it just works. >> charlie: so beyond expectation. >> oh, yeah. i came with no expectations whatsoever to new york as music director. i thought, well, let's see what happens, but the chemistry has been just right and i -- well, i confess publicly i'm very, very happy and just in love with my orchest

thing about social music is the world is global now, everything's more connected with internet andf, social media. so if you take music, i'm a jazz musician and that's what i wrote the music in but i draw from all styles. >> stephen: jazz is an american art form. >> yeah. >> stephen: you say it's global. don't give away our art form to the rest of the world. it's our art form, brother! >> it is, but i guess it's okay to be closed-minded. >> stephen: it's american-minded, not closed-minded. (audience reacts) it's not closed minded! we cannot be open-minded any more than we can be open-bordered. (laughter) we have all this jazz and if we let the aliens in it's luke the music has been invaded by little goguatemalans! >> it's about shared. >> stephen: it's about socialism. >> no, it's about sharing experiences. you share the experience as a genuine human exchange. >> stephen: now we're having a human moment now. >> yeah, and we share it. >> stephen: i understand, but >> but it's still mine. >> stephen: but is it mine, too? >> it can be if you want it to be (audience reacts) >> stephen:

and the music that reveals to us the america that came out of that war. you will see a transformation. michael lasser is a writer and teacher about american music. he has written two books. we have them available after his lecture. he is in the process of writing a third. he is the author of "america's songs ii". this is a companion piece to a book he wrote, "america songs, the stories behind hollywood and tin pan alley." he established himself as a songbird. i have heard he is not going to be singing this evening. i'm sorry to disappoint you. he is working on a book called "the song is us, love, lyrics and america 1900." i am looking forward to that fourth volume about the hip-hop thing that he is such an expert on. [laughter] he is a graduate of dartmouth. he has been lecturing on music and songs and america for 30 years. let me introduce michael lasser. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. i'm going to be treating songs as in affect documents. -- in effect documents. that is, when you listen to a song from your own time, somehow it is a mere o

>> mama always said that was a good idea. ♪ i don't know if it's the booze or the music or the tropicale, wandering down old cobblestone streets, different music issuing from everywhere, a different party, people flowing out of buildings, one gathering, commingling with another, the music mixing. it really does seem that everybody is moving to some mysterious unknowable pulse, some unheard throb that moves people to constantly touch each other, stroke hips, necks, limbs. ♪ ♪ it is useful to know that of over 12 million africans dragged, ripped and kidnapped from their homelands, nearly 5 million ended up in brazil. 1.5 million of them in bahia alone. pelourinho became the locus of a vast infrastructure of plantations and the slave trade that powered them. making this city in northeastern brazil the most opulent in the new world. pelourinho, it's worth pointing out, gets its name from the whipping post. 100 years after slavery was outlawed in brazil, pelourinho had been forgotten but of course, the neighborhood had its charms. if you were an artist, a musician, a writer, you could afford

people going and actually buying music and paying the royalty on the music that they by? >> from what has been recorded by the recording industry, music sales have gone down i believe in terms of hard copies. not through the fault of anything that radio has done. we continue to freely promote and play this music, and our audience does continue to go out and buy the music. within that system, between radio and records, we are still driving our consumers, our listeners to go out and buy music. there's no other way they can do. not recording what we're doing on the air, stealing the content and then listening to it. there are alternatives they can go to. they can go to digital platforms but it because it have to pay just for the right to listen to what is there. there's no charge to do what we do. so there's a digital model out there that none of us is really found the way to make it work. and i think we can all sit to integrate that there's a challenge of their the website as a business model which can hopefully grow the first platforms, benefit all of the stakeholders, the

to the ears of the online music site spotify. "on the move" when we return. ♪ there is interest in competition in the online streaming music space now that google is in the game. their service is squaring off against pandora and the relative newcomer to the asian market spotify. zeb eckert has more in today's global outlook. >> spotify is celebrating its one-year anniversary in the asian market. it's first year has been closely watched. it is one of the first paid music streaming sites to enter the region. it has a new look. spotify operating in these asia-pacific nations, australia, hong kong, malaysia, new zealand, singapore, and taiwan. it has about 40 million active monthly users. you compare it to pandora, which is the biggest internet provider, internet music, internet radio provider in the u.s., spotify has a superior geographic reach. a check on its website reveals it operates in about 56 territories. pandora, for example, only in the united states. it claims 76 million listeners. that is about one quarter of the u.s. pop

i've heard a condition proposed by one of our neighborhood associations we maintain the music style is bluegrass. you know, i think the most important thing is the volume levels and if there's a chance that a certain music style might get too loud we'll go with acoustic i'm not obtaining to other sties >> question to boom alley. >> we have a poly called lowered the boom. >> (laughter). >> all right. i don't see any more commissioner questions have a seat. any police comments on this particular - i know we have officer chad is not here is there any public comment on the 21st amendment brewery come on up and say our name into the microphone two minutes >> thank you very much alice roger i live on park across the street i've written to you in advance hopefully my memo was sent. i'm here to offer support for the amendment that qualified support i think that rob has been axiliary in terms of his outreach and handling working with the neighbors and everything that's he's said and proposed he's really followed through an and what i'd like to have this really codified with this approval or the

music is the refuge.o to escape, to find comfort and find peace and happy binehappiness, peace,. if that time ever does disappear, i'm out. i no longer -- i no longer -- i hand back my ticket for a ride on this spinning globe because i can't imagine what life on this earth would be like without that, without music. i can't cob receive it. >> give me the good and the bad, the up and down. you know, you take my point. of coming into this kind of exposure for your music after you are a star. >> well, i suppose -- >> what's the up? what's the down? >> well, the up -- the most obvious part is i don't necessarily have to hammer on doors, you know, take the skin off my knuckles trying to break through to an audience to get people to come to the show. you know, people -- first of all, they're curious to see what the hell -- when i understand. i would be doing the same. i suppose if there's a down, you know, that -- coming with that is the difficulty of transforming what people expect you to do. they're used to se

that makes the dynamic more difficult for the music good collection. now nobody is supposed to talk. we have not talked with anyone in the coalition and i probably won't until there's a resolution. as far as. i have to tell you that my my sense is that there is confusion and disarray at this point. i. think it's terribly frustrating you know because i thought we had some momentum i thought we had some agreements we haven't moved any further with f.s.b. we've gone through the the plumber very work we still remain very interested in going green right now where just focusing on our land legislation the guys who are supposed to be working on for a certification have been to our our legislation the land will be. the most preeminent issue for us and so we're not going to quit we will not stop until it is done. now it seems like yeah yeah yeah well just wait just wait it's like well what are we waiting for what are we waiting for these i think they're two separate issues you know can't you can't you do more than one thing at a time but there are it's really no

how their brand-new sound is taking the music world by storm. >>> and the real planet of the apes.y're taking over more than just the box office. we're going all the way to the mountains of rwanda where the true battles have just begun. >>> but first, the ""nightline 5."" >> >>> number one in just 60 seconds. >>> good evening. as we go on-air nearly 80 million americans are facing extreme weather tonight. it's the most dangerous month of the year for lightning strikes. as you're about to hear, they can even hit in your own home. here's abc's senior meteorologist ginger zee on how it happens and how you can stay safe. >> reporter: lightning. one of nature's most destructive and unbridled forces. fascinating yet dangerous. ripping through buildings, trees, cars, and even people. killing 12 people already this year, lightning took two lives in two separate incidents at the same park this past weekend in colorado. injuring 20 others. >> we didn't see the bolt. it was just a white flash. >> reporter: even inside your home, lightning can strike. >> all we heard was kaboom! >> all i remem

i feel the same about the music and yet, i do not. same technically, the beethoven symphonies we performed with our own markings and adding shadings, that has not changed. i think i have infused music with a renewed passion that partially stems to the fact i have fallen in love with the new york philharmonic. is an extraordinary orchestra. i think they make music glow with a vibrancy of dedication. >> are you surprised he fell in love with it? >> absolutely. i am surprised. >> why? >> it is a great orchestra and i have had the privilege of conducting other orchestras. >> this one is unique in the relationship? >> we seem to understand one another. >> beyond expectation? >> yes. i came here with no expectations whatsoever. i said, let's see what will happen. i confess publicly i am in love with this orchestra. >> i am in love with my orchestra! what do you want to be played at your funeral? >> i had thought as a younger man that i would enjoy loving the music from romeo and juliet. incredible music. now, i think i would prefer somethin

. >> they were front and send r as the musical changes swept the nation. now bill medley has written a memory called the time of my life. we're glad you joined us a conversation with bill medley coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >>> from their first chart-topping single to 1964, the "righteous brothers" were something of a hit-making factory after that duo split. bill medley continued to top the schart with i've had the time of my life" recorded with jennifer lawrence which was featured in "dirty dancing." now he's written a memory about his life tled "the time of my life." what else would you call it, the time of my life. let's look at a clip from the "righteous brothers" singing one of those iconic hits -- "you lost that loving feeling" ♪ you're trying hard not to show it, but baby, baby i know it ♪ ♪ you've lost that loving feeling, whoa, that loving feeling ♪ ♪ you've lost that loving feeling now it's gone, gone, gone, whoa ♪ >> you guys really are a duo. you're snapping fingers on

>> i think that it could really change the face of musical theater on broadway. >> and even if the criticsl, leon says broadway needs the diversity. >> people always talk to me about critics and reviews and what i found in this country, there are not enough african-american critics. there are not enough african-american writers and a lot of non-african-american writers or critics don't really understand what our stories are about. so most of the plays that i've done on broadway, most of the reviews have been mixed, but the shows have been packed because people come from places like memphis, tennessee and atlanta, georgia and los angeles, california. they travel to see the work. i've been blessed to have sold-out shows that make a million dollars and people tell the stories and i think we do it in a professional way. so when i think about krtices, i think the ultimate critic is god so i try to please god, and i try to please myself and i try to do some stories that i think the first group of people will be attracted to. >> as for winning awards? >> it's not about getting good reviews or eve

i'm doing the music thing for people, i'm doing the education thing for people. [inaudible] school district. and yes, i teach them music. at city hall it seems like there's not a lot of people who grew up in san francisco anymore, so that's another reason i think i could bring some balance to city hall in that respect. it might even be diversity, because i don't see people who grew up here represented in san francisco. i have some more things, i'll try to keep it brief here. professionalism and music, i would like -- instead of just original rock band i'd like to have more musical people who are professionals, who know about music, went to music school, have learned from prior musicians and to make music more as a cultural thing in san francisco, not just a counter cultural thing, which apparently it's only been about counter culture, or something i'm not certain, but i'd like to add to that counter culture aspect of music and make it measure classic and more cultural and more hobbies. >> can you wrap up, please? >> i will wrap up. i have plenty of ideas to develo

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