Category Archives: News
MSNBC article: “Higher music royalties troubling the Internet”
An interesting article Higher music royalties troubling the Internet, but it doesn’t directly mention the per play fees, just the $500 minimum per station. I wish Pandora hadn’t joked about moving overseas.
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Wired Magazine: Jazzmen To Congress: Save Net Radio
In Jazzmen To Congress: Save Net Radio, Eliot Van Buskirk shares a letter sent my several jazz musicians to Senator Conyers and Senator Leahy.
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Web Radio Stations have started dropping
I’ve already noticed several stations dropping off of Live365. A very large Jazz station from California apparently has stopped online broadcasting. There are many stations in the broadcaster forums at Live365 that are discussing their plans to shut down in … Continue reading
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PC Magazine: Net Radio: ‘New Song Royalties Will Kill Us’
PC Magazine’s article: Net Radio: ‘New Song Royalties Will Kill Us’. The word is getting out there very slowly.
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Playlist Magazine: The downing of Internet radio
Playlist Magazine has a very nice article summarizing the status of the performance royalty situation. The article is The downing of Internet radio.
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How the RIAA Stole Web Radio
How the RIAA Stole Web Radio (Audio Version MP3 2:25 700kb) read by Michael and Laura Clark. Everyone on the web Liked web radio a lot. But the RIAA who lived In Fantasy land did not. The artists don’t quite … Continue reading
ZDNet Article on the Performance Royalties Issue
The press is starting to wake up to the performance royalty question. David Berlind writes in Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost about three legal situations this quarter that will impact … Continue reading
New Royalty Ruling Leaves the Future of Internet Radio in Doubt
On March 2, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued the significantly higher new royalty rates for Internet radio for the 2006-2010 period. They changed the guidelines for how royalties are calculated for the music that is played on Internet Radio … Continue reading
9 months
Only nine months til Christmas! What are your plans? It’ll be here before you know it.
Most Popular Christmas Songs
According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, these are the Top 25 most-performed “Holiday” songs for the first five years of the 21st Century: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) – Mel Tormé, Robert … Continue reading
