NPR Joins Appeal of Online Music Royalties
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National Public Radio is teaming up with online radio broadcasters to appeal new music royalty fees that they say would put smaller operators out of business and force others to sharply scale back their online music offerings.
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Sentero.net, a site offering mp3 music  downloads, recently launched a free music streaming service sure to  appeal to all music lovers. Inventors promise the new service will  redefine both Internet radio and  music marketing on the internet.
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Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music.
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A Los Angeles Times story published yesterday revealed that the new Copyright Alliance, made up of content and recording industry leaders and supported by Rep. Howard Berman (D - Calif.), has as its key mission the establishment of a system of rates which both terrestrial and Internet-based radio stations would pay as performance royalties.
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Internet music broadcasters will have to start paying sharply higher royalties next week, after a federal appeals court yesterday refused to halt the royalty increase.
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Kazaa users can freely exchange songs, movies and television programs without paying royalties to copyright owners. Record company lawyers are attempting to have Sharman Networks, Kazaa&#39;s parent company, declared
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Tentatively. Temporarily There's been a stay of execution after all. Just hours after a federal appeals court rejected efforts to postpone the arrival of new royalty rates threatening to bring down internet radio, webcasters reached a tentative agreement with the recording industry that will keep them online - at least temporarily.â¦
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Yesterday, the SoundExchange organization which the US Copyright Royalty Board designated as the handler for performers' royalties, offered "small webcasters" the option of returning to an earlier arrangement, which would cap the amount of royalties it receives from them at 10% of net revenues up to the first $250,000, and 12% thereafter.
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Internet radio gets ready for a fight after the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board quietly releases a retroactive rate hike that could mean financial disaster from music streamers. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The Supreme Court declines to hear the music industry's appeal of a case that forbade it from trying to force phone and internet companies from turning over the names of people suspected of copyright infringement over peer-to-peer networks. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C.
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But look to lawsuit stick rather than iTunes carrot for the cause
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Internet radio broadcasters and the music industry appeared to be moving closer Monday to resolving a dispute over a new system mandating higher royalty fees for streaming music online.
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Blog: New fees don't appear to have stopped many Webcasters from silencing their streams yet, but they're still counting on a formal compromise with the music industry.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Representatives for the music and movie industries have filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision in which companies that enable peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file trading networks were absolved of liability for copyright violations by users of those networks.
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The bitter, high-stakes fight over swapping free music online has reached the Supreme Court, which agreed Friday to hear a case against two networks that offer online music sharing.
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$5/month Web-based service will deliver the songs without commercial interruption.
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Blog: Some Webcasters say they're encouraged by recent offers by the record industry group charged with collecting higher fees--including a potential reprieve for some smaller online DJs.--but nothing's set in stone yet.