Since its inception, the Wing has been active in advocacy initiatives with new and ongoing initiatives that target advocacy issues, intellectual property rights, new streams of revenue, royalty participation, and more.

Much of the Wing's resources have been committed to advocacy since 2000, when it merged with the Music Producers Guild of the Americas. Later that same year, members of the Wing backed the introduction of a bill establishing a National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress. This bill was the first nationwide effort to preserve American music recordings.

In 2002, the P&E Wing sent a letter to the House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, calling on Congress to focus on the role of producers and engineers in the creative process and to address the interests of producers and engineers in copyright-related legislation, including for webcasting royalties. This letter marked the first time producers were heard as "one voice" and recognized on Capitol Hill regarding an important matter of public policy.

The P&E Wing then assisted SoundExchange, a "receiving agent" royalty collective that is a nonprofit corporation formerly owned and operated by the RIAA, to create a structure that defines how producers, engineers and re-mixers receive their share of webcasting royalties. This created an ability to collect a new stream of revenue on digital transmissions of U.S. sound recordings as well as for U.S. performance revenue for certain digital music services — including cable and satellite subscriptions. This set a new precedent for a newly realized revenue stream for this constituency in the United States. Producers may be entitled to a share of these royalties if they supply SoundExchange with a letter of direction. The P&E Wing has developed a form of letter of direction for producers available on this site by clicking here.

The P&E Wing also has been coordinating ongoing efforts with the U.K.-based Performing Artists' Media Rights Association, as well as other international producer organizations such as the Music Producers Guild. The P&E Wing has been gathering information to assist its qualifying producer members in collecting public performance royalties in the United Kingdom. If a producer qualifies to be paid as a "performing producer" by Phonographic Performance Ltd., he or she may get a share of public performance royalties for sound recordings in the U.K. This also could set another new benchmark for U.S.-based producers to collect another new source of revenue when recording overseas.

The Wing has an ongoing commitment to these initiatives in an effort to better the working lives of P&E constituents.