Webcasters, Music Industry Wrestle Over Royalty Hike
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  May 26--Stung by the backlash against increased royalties charged to  Internet broadcasters, the music industry this week offered to give small  online broadcasters a break.
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$2,500 limit on multi-stream stations Music industry taxman SoundExchange is offering a new deal to internet radio broadcasters who say upcoming royalty hikes will kill online broadcasting.â¦
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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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The group that collects royalties from Internet radio stations offering small radio broadcasters more time before they would have to pay newly approved higher royalty rates to stream music online. But the SaveNetRadio organization would have none of it.
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Amid continued controversy over applying the Fairness Doctrine to radio, the controversy over charging webcasters millions in retroactive royalty fees has seemingly come to a conclusion. On Thursday, the House of Representatives failed to come to the rescue of webcasters in a dispute with record companies over new royalty rates the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) put into place. Still, many broadcasters claim they cannot afford the increased fees and might go silent forever.
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A rift appeared within Canada&#39;s music industry yesterday as prominent artists called on the CRTC to embrace satellite radio and the industry warned of lost revenue and job losses.
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Blog: The latest front in Webcasters' protest of elevated royalty fees is a "day of silence," and some larger stations are expected to participate.
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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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A Washington copyright panel that more than doubled fees U.S. Internet radio stations must pay for music is being called the industry's possible executioner.
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Laguna Hills, California-based music portal Rock.com is compelled to  issue this release to demonstrate how inconsistent the recent CRB  Internet performance royalty increase is with Rock.com's ability to  actually pay royalties based on the new scheme.
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New royalty rates may doom many small stations and the struggling musicians who depend on them.
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European Parliament is pushing for changes in how musicians collect online copyright fees.
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Blog: National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting say they expect no disruptions in their music streams thanks to a temporary agreement with the music industry over elevated fees set to kick in Sunday.
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Universal Music Group is poised to win a battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music.
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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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Internet radio's temporary reprieve from a potentially fatal royalty rate hike offers an opportunity for a reasoned look at the situation. Comentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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As new digital-distribution plans gain traction, an inevitable fight over publishing royalties breaks out. If songwriters lose, your ears will suffer. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.