Religious broadcasters are asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether their paying higher fees to stream music online than secular outfits like National Public Radio violates their First Amendment rights.
Religious broadcasters ask Supreme Court to rule on their high royalty feesto rule on whether their paying higher fees to stream music online than secular outfits like National Public Radio violates their First Amendment rights.
The National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee says it is required to pay 18 times what NPR pays in royalty rates, which are set every five years by the Noncommercial religious webcasters with an audience threshold of 218 average listeners were required to pay a much higher rate in 2021 than secular NPR noncommercial webcasters, which the religious group says amounts to a “two-tier” system.
They say the different treatment runs afoul of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment. “The result is a two-tier noncommercial rate structure with secular NPR stations at the top and religious stations on the bottom,” the group said in its February petition to the. “This discriminatory treatment elevates secular content and suppresses religious speech online, putting religious stations at a severe disadvantage in the marketplace of ideas.”It would take four justices to vote in favor of hearing the case for oral arguments to be heard.
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