How high were the webcasting royalties set by a federal copyright board more than two years ago? So high that the bacon-saving discount announced Tuesday for “pureplay” webcasters will still require large ones to pay [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations reached an agreement Tuesday to head off a potentially crippling increase in copyright royalty rates.
The deal is the product of two years of negotiations between webcasters and copyright holders. In March 2007, a ruling by [...]
A federal appeals court has declined to grant a petition by Webcasters to delay the onset of new royalty fees that they argue could imperil their offerings.
In a one-page order filed late Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]
What was advertised as a House Judiciary Committee hearing on trends affecting minority broadcast ownership devolved at times into a discussion of John Conyers’ (D-MI) Performance Rights Act, which included an attack on Radio One, which turned down an invitation to testify. Conyers said that Arbitron’s [...]
By Ken Tucker Ken Tucker – Sat Jul 11, 1:33 am ET
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