In US radio, unlike radio elsewhere in the world, performers don't receive royalties -- only composers do. This was set early on in the history of radio and be

In US radio, unlike radio elsewhere in the world, performers don't receive royalties -- only composers do. This was set early on in the history of radio and became very hard to change. I'm glad that we seem to have made it through an analogous phase in the history of internet distribution without artists being frozen out.