U.S. Royalty Rates Hit Webcasting
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It looks grim for webcasters -- the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board announces retroactive rates, endorsing a per-play proposal by RIAA-associated SoundExchange. In Listening Post.
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LOS ANGELES  - CBS Corp. and Comcast Corp. are snipping the price tag off their video-on-demand (VOD) offering of primetime series.
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Amid an outcry from online listeners and Congress, the recording industry indicated in may show new leniency on royalties for Internet radio.
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By SETH SUTEL NEW YORK - 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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Break.com, a popular destination for user-generated videos, ups the cash payout for top-quality content. Video producers can now earn as much as $400 if their creations reach the site's homepage. In Monkey Bites.
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Pro and amateur videos, social networking and even streaming TV shows are luring audiences to the Web, study shows
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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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At a major gathering of the leaders in Internet content production this morning, producers learned why it may be tougher than ever before to receive first-stage funding. Today, the shows need to already exist...somehow.
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Three days and counting... The Internet radio death watch continues. Late yesterday, a federal appeals court denied an emergency stay petition from webcasters, refusing to delay the arrival of massive royalty hikes that threaten to bring down online radio as we know it. The new royalty rates - which could mean a 300 per cent payment increase for large stations, 1200 per cent for smaller broadcasters - are due to kick in this Sunday.â¦
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Demands for higher royalty payments by a US copyright body could shut down net radio stations, they warn.
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Media & professional: The corporation's global presence is threatened by the licence fee squeeze, writes James Robinson.
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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.
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US iPlayer in the works Just as the BBC is slashing jobs at home, its commercial tentacle is ramping up efforts to squeeze money from its programming and web content abroad.â¦
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Sunday, July 15, was supposed to be the day that Internet music died: A new fee schedule was set to go into effect, including a $500 &quot;per channel&quot; minimum fee. Because many of the most popular audio-streaming sites, such as Pandora and 365Live, allow users to create their own specialized channels of music built around specific artists or songs, they were facing the prospect of paying the minimum per channel fee on tens or even hundreds of thousands of channels.
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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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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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When it comes to what pays on U.S. television, talk doesn't come cheap -- nor apparently does a loud mouth.