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Internet Radio saved?

article published on 29 September, 2008

The House of Representatives has unanimously passed the bill that will greenlight an agreement between Internet Radio companies and SoundExchange, the nonprofit organization that collects royalties for the record labels and the RIAA. In March 2007 the federal Copyright Royalty Board negotiated new royalty rates for digital broadcasters that would have increased the rates to levels where ... [ read the full article ]

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1bonehead
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_ 		29. September 2008 @ 23:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
NAB bites the dust (for now)
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The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The IFPI Are: The same anti consumer lot as listed above!
The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX.

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DXR88
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I don't like CCR anyhow, whay to go Pandora. this should set an example to other Streaming music services.
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atomicxl
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Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora said that if the rates go up then over $17 million of Pandora's estimated $25 million revenue will go to paying off royalties.
Does anyone know what the rates are for internet plays vs radio plays. When all you do is play music, I don't think it should be too shocking that the bulk of your expenses are music associated.
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I certainly hope the license fees are not increased yet again. When license fees were first put on internet radio, thousands upon thousands of small non-profit (by fact if not by choice) were forced offline. It was a terrible loss of diversity of programs, points of view, on site information. True enough, the current pros have done pretty well and there does remain a somewhat smaller set of choices.

This is the only "free" media in the world. Most of the english speaking world get all of their news from five or six media conglomerates, all owned or controlled by right wing conservative, rich white men. If the increase in royalties were to be paid to the artists ... sure, I'd be all for the increase. Alas, it is to "enhance" profitability" for the record companies, distributers, the RIAA, screw that!

No Increase!
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