WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed musicians Kid Rock and country star John Rich to the White House on Thursday as he signed legislation overhauling the way music is licensed and songwriters compensated.
Trump signed the Orrin B. Hatch Music Modernization Act on Thursday. The bill won wide bipartisan support in the House and Senate and is backed by the music industry. It’s named after the retiring Utah senator, who is also a musician.
Also joining the president were Mike Love of the Beach Boys, singer Sam Moore and the Christian group MercyMe.
The legislation creates a new independent entity that will license songs to companies that play music online.
The nonprofit collective will then pay songwriters, including those who wrote pre-1970s classics before music copyrights protected their work.
I’m guessing he’s really big into Stephen Foster tunes…
I always assumed he was more of a Slipknot fan.
Orrin Hatch is a giant walking, talking douche with deeply held white Christian nationalist authoritarian beliefs that should’ve been buried with the bodies in Gettysburg and Appomattox…and nothing he does should ever earn him forgiveness for it. NOTHING.
He might play an instrument but he’s not a musician. Not a creative, sensitive or caring bone in his body. And don’t tell me otherwise.
Hey now, Foster was a brilliant composer. I’m sure Orrin enjoys anything written by John Ashcroft.
But the big question is … Why was Father Guido Sarducci at the White(s Only) House?