Tag archive: SoundExchange

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

Salvation may be on the way for webcasting radio stations like Pandora, which have long warned that new royalty rates may kill them off. On Saturday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill [PDF] that would aid the stations by giving them another two months to negotiate with SoundExchange, the organization that sets the rates. All parties involved actually supported the Webcaster Settlement of 2008, including webcasters,… Read More

Although the dust is far from settled in the negotiations which will determine the fate of hundreds (or thousands) of online radio webcasters in the United States, smaller operations have received a bit of a reprieve from the music industry organization SoundExchange, which has agreed to let stations continue paying royalty rates in effect before July 15, 2007, while good-faith negotiations on a new royalty rate structure are underway.… 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