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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The net is having to grow in order to meet fresh demands such as high definition video on the web.
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National Public Radio is teaming up with online radio broadcasters to appeal new music royalties 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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Start transmission... Opinion Consumers and webcasters are outraged at the license fees that the Copyright Royalty Board (the CRB) has determined will be charged under the webcasting statutory license in the United States. Everyone except spokespeople for the record labels expect that these fees will drive nearly all independent webcasters out of business.â¦
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The online auctioneer singles out cheap media for new fee cuts.
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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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On Tuesday, thousands of U.S. webcasters are expected to go silent to protest a planned royalty rate increase.
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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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The group set up by the Recording Industry Association of America to collect royalties for performers and record companies has reached an agreement with the Digital Media Association whose members include large music webcasters, to cap royalty fees at $50,000 per webcaster per year.
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Consumer spending on Internet video streams and movie downloads will expand fortyfold to about $4.1 billion by 2011 as technology emerges to connect television sets to the Web, according to a study. Spending will rise from about $112 million last year, according to the Adams Media Research study.
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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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The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
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Multimillion-dollar price tags are springing up. And not just for Porn.com.
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Calling the imposition of tremendously increased royalty fees on music webcasters "arbitrary and capricious," a group of organizations and companies with streaming radio interests, including the Digital Music Association, AccuRadio, and National Public Radio, filed a petition for an emergency stay before the US Court of Appeals in D.C., of the order imposing new performance royalty fees on online streaming music providers.
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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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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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After ceding ground (and potential advertising dollars) for years to an army of autonomous Internet radio stations, the nationâs biggest broadcasters are now marching online.