loc.gov - 9/25/2008
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Division of Authority Between the Copyright Royalty Judges and the Register of Copyrights under the Section 115 Statutory Licenses : Final Order 73 FR 48396 August 19, 2008 Version: PDF Judge Roberts Reappointed: Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, reappointed Judge William J. ...
news.cnet.com - 10/3/2008
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news.cnet.com —
The Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday froze the
rate that digital-music stores such as iTunes and RealNetworks'...
Rhapsody must pay music publishers. The three-member board that sets statutory copyright licenses e-mailed the Digital Media ...
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Royalty rate doesn't change for Apple, music retailers
biz.yahoo.com - 10/2/2008
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biz.yahoo.com —
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The federal Copyright Royalty
Board on Thursday left the royalty that songwriters receive...
on sales of CDs and digital downloads at 9.1 cents per song for the next five years. Both songwriters and music sellers applauded the ruling ...
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Copyright board leaves royalty rate unchanged: Financial ...
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Internet audio and the smallest step forward
Macworld —
... (a division of the RIAA responsible for collecting royalties) have come together to settle a portion of the royalty issues. Specifically, if the agreement is approved by the Copyright Royalty Board (the panel of three judges who concocted these usurious fees), subscription services such as Napster and Rhapsody, that allow users to rent their music as long as they continue paying the subscription fee, and interactive streaming services—those where the user chooses the music rather than having an entity such as Pandora choose it for them—will pay a royalty of 10.5 percent of ...
Why The Online Music Industry Should Move To a Rev-Share Model
TechCrunch —
... Memo to the Copyright Royalty Board: a bigger pie fills more bellies. Tomorrow, the three-judge panel that sets rates on music copyright fees is scheduled to announce new rates on digital music downloads for the next five years. The fees, which go to music publishers (the actual owners of the copyright to each song), are currently set at 9 cents per track. Music publishers want to raise that to 15 cents per track. Apple has vaguely threatened that it might have to ...
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