Webcasters face doubling of royalties
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Bad Moon Rising on the rise The Library of Congress' copyright board, which sets the royalty rates for statutory licenses, proposes doubling the amount webcasters pay for their statutory license in the next the few years.â¦
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SoundExchange says it will limit "per channel" fees to $50,000 a year for major internet radio companies streaming music on multiple channels. The ruling means large webcasters, such as Pandora Media and Time Warner's AOL face much higher payments than in the past.
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High-stakes patent royalties battle enters another round.
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Blog: Barring a last-minute industry compromise, new royalty rates--which Internet radio operators argue could cripple their services--are slated to kick in Sunday.
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As TV networks post an increasing number of TV shows online, the writers guild is demanding a share in ad revenues.
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Radio microphones used in the entertainment industry could be under threat from plans to sell off airwaves.
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Blog: Some Webcasters say they're encouraged by recent offers by the record industry group charged with collecting higher fees, but nothing's set in stone yet.
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Singers and musicians should earn royalty fees for 95 years, almost double the current 50-year limit, a European Union official said Thursday as he promised to draft new copyright protection rules.
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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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While Congress continues to back-burner the debate over whether it's fair for streaming radio services to be charged as much as ten times their revenue in performance royalties, the US Copyright Royalty Board last week met for a roundtable discussion about whether yet another class of royalties that are already part of copyright law, should apply to Internet radio as well.
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Editor, New Era:           There is a bill just introduced in Congress that will save Internet radio from the devastating royalty-fee           increases that will put thousands of Internet webcasters out of business on May 15.
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Web radio broadcasters go off air in protest at plans to hike royalty payments when music is played online.
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Small webcasters are crying foul  over new royalty rates they must pay for streaming recordings.
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Internet Radio has been sentenced to death. \
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Radio station owners are putting up more and more video fare on their Web sites â from a simple camera in the broadcast booth to exclusive coverage of special events â to tempt both listeners and advertisers.
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US Internet radio listeners will tune in to the sound of silence on Tuesday as webcasters protest a sharp rise in royalty fees that critics say will force thousands of online stations to close.
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Lawmakers debating whether Congress should step in to stop the imposition of dramatically higher royalties fees on Internet streaming music providers heard testimony this morning from people involved in small businesses throughout the independent music economy: a private webcaster, two artists, two indie record producers, a public broadcaster, and the president of the nation's leading musicians' union.