MEP Manuel Medina Ortega führte hierfür folgende Gründe an:
* Our amendments help all artists, but the low earners, the session musicians, will get the most benefits. They alone get the 20% fund. Their income will triple. These session performers would get between a € 130 and € 2000 benefits per year. That may look like a small sum, but for these artists it is a lot.
* They will be able to use their moral rights during their lifetime, that means to have their word to say about how their creation is exploited and presented to the public; for instance they can object to the song being included in a commercial.
* All performers also receive airplay royalties from the broadcasting of music over the air, and from public performance of music in bars and discotheques. These royalties are not assigned to the record producer but managed by collecting societies.
* They will also receive copyright levies (in the countries where there exist) during their lifetime; the levies are also not assigned to the record producer. Together, levies and equitable remuneration amount to 95% of performers collecting societies’ income.
* They will benefit from the clean slate clause, which has been introduced by an amendment, and which allows performers to receive their full royalties during the extended term no matter what the producers paid them in advance when the contract was signed;
* Eventually, they will benefit because producers of phonogram will be encouraged to do the marketing of the recordings made in the 60s and 70s. And because the record industry is a portfolio business, the ensuring revenues will contribute to A&R spending on new talent. The producers spend in average 17% of their benefits on new talent.