Major Webcasters to face billions in new fees?
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Blog: New letter to Congress from Yahoo, RealNetworks, Pandora and Live365 execs urges politicos to reconsider new rules they argue would require not only higher royalty rates on songs, but more than $1 billion in annual "administrative" fees.
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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.
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By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News  Dec. 8--Even though consumers have more choices than ever for video  programming, cable and satellite TV, fees are expected to go up again in 2007.
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If a new online radio webcasting royalty rate, proposed last week by the Copyright Royalty Board of the US Library of Congress, is ratified and put into effect, online webcasting leader AOL Radio may receive a bill for copyright holders' royalties retroactive to 2006 amounting to $23.7 million, payable to a collective representing the US recording industry. And that's not the half of it.
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New royalty rates may doom many small stations and the struggling musicians who depend on them.
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CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs $25 a year, becoming the latest news organization to revamp its revenue model on the Web.
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Justice Department tells FCC that internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic. DOJ says it's opposed to "Net neutrality," the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web user.
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WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
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Internet music broadcasters worry that a new ruling could put many of them out of business by drastically increasing the royalty payments they have to make to record labels and artists.
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Our story on Tuesday regarding the proposed Internet streaming royalty fees generated a lot of buzz in the streaming radio community, which prompted prominent members of that industry to share with us some more up-to-date statistics. BetaNews is now able to make more accurate projections about what major and minor streaming radio providers are likely to pay.
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Radical plans for the future of the BBC have been announced by Director General, Mark Thompson. Mr Thompson said the changes are needed so that more of the licence fee can be put into programmes and content.
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The networkâs charge for access to content over the Internet has been troubling.
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Hundreds of US net radio stations face potential closure from Monday when a new royalty fee begins.
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Critics of new rates set to go into effect Sunday say the change spells doom for internet radio. Will Congress intercede?
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Plans for municipal Wi-Fi in a dozen cities currently in negotiations with EarthLink may be in jeopardy as the company is imposing new demands on how the networks are to be paid for.
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Music-industry providers are negotiating a flat rate with webcasters because their current royalty plan would bankrupt most of them.
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The online auctioneer singles out cheap media for new fee cuts.