[Editor Charlie sez: Fasten your chin straps, free marketeers are starting to come out against the Mechanical Licensing Collective part of the Music Modernization Act.]
Rather than foster the growing marketplace addressing this complex issue, the bill imposes a Washington top-down approach that ostensibly benefits crony lobbyists and corporations while short-circuiting creative innovators. It is a classic example of a backroom swamp deal that robs Peter to pay Paul. In this case, Peter is the American people, and Paul is the biggest crony actors in the music industry.