Gene Simmons of KISS testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the “injustice” that performers still go uncompensated when their music is played on broadcast radio stations.

Simmons, who on Sunday was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor along with other bandmates, told lawmakers, “Let’s call it for what it is — an injustice that has been going on for decades.” He noted that performers from Bing Crosby to Elvis Presley to Frank Sinatra never were compensated when their performances were heard on radio.

He and other musicians and artists are championing the Music Fairness Act , which would establish a music performance right that would require stations to license their songs for airplay. Songwriters already are compensated, and performers are paid when their works air on satellite

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