Tag archive: royalty

The brouhaha over royalties owed to artists and content providers for streaming music and audio programming via the Internet is changing…but is filled with as much drama as ever. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has reached a new royalty agreement with SoundExchange, a non-profit performance rights organization tasks with collecting royalties for so-called “non-interactive” digital transmissions. The… Read More

The Copyright Royalty Board—which establishes statutory royalty rates paid to content authors and publishers in many media—has decided to leave royalty rates unchanged for physical media and so-called “permanent” digital music downloads. Every time a consumer buys a song on CD or downloads a version from an online music service, authors and publishers earn 9.1 cents. The fee applies to CDs and downloaded music… Read More

Online music broadcasters may have received a temporary stay of execution from an unlikely source: speaking at a roundtable committee meeting held by Massachusetts representative Ed Markey, SoundExchange's executive director Jim Simson said his organization will not enforce new music royalty rates approved by the Copyright Royalty Board. Instead, the new rates will be postponed indefinitely while SoundExchange works with online… Read More

Webcaster's Royalty Rate Appeal Denied Hundreds of U.S.-based net radio station may go silent Monday, as an appeals court denies a motion to delay the onset of new, significantly higher royalty rates. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit has denied a motion to postpone the implementation of new music royalty rates to be levied on U.S.-based Webcasters and online radio stations. In a brief statement, the… Read More

Webcasters are planning a “Day of Silence” on Tuesday, June 26, to protest new Internet broadcast royalty rates scheduled to go into effect on July 15 in the United States. On June 26, participatingWebcasters will shut down their feeds to both bring attention to their cause and give Internet radio listeners a taste of what life might be like if new royalty rates go into effect. Some webcastersplan to shut down their feeds entirely;… Read More

A panel of judges on the U.S.'s Copyright Royalty Board have upheld (PDF) a previous ruling which substantially increases the amount of royalties Internet broadcasters and Webcasters would have pay for the use of music in online radio and other streaming media. Under the new royalty structure many Internet broadcasters and terrestrial stations offering online feeds of their programming may be forced to shut down operations. National… Read More

A consensus is not being expected till the end of June at the earliest, according to the Taiwanese makers. Philips currently imposes royalty charges of US$0.045 per CD-R disc and US$0.06 per DVD+R disc on Taiwanese licensees. As the OEM price for CD-Rs has dropped to US$0.15-0.2 per disc, royalty payments have risen to 22.5%-30% of revenues. In addition to the drop in CD-R pricing, other factors lead Taiwanese makers to expect… Read More