In a report on "Copyright and the Music Marketplace", the Copyright Office has set out a wide range of observations and recommendations that could resonate for years in Congress and elsewhere.… Continue Reading
Attention, all commercial webcasters -- January 31 is the deadline for filing the first of what will be many Statements of Account to SoundExchange, along with payment of copyright royalties for performance of sound recordings over the Internet during 2010.… Continue Reading
After years of proposals and deliberations and interim policies, the Copyright Royalty Board has published "final rules" dictating the playlist reporting requirements for webcasters. But the "new" rules may be of little more than academic interest to many.… Continue Reading
Last week we reported that SoundExchange had reached a couple of agreements affecting non-CPB noncommercial webcasters. The terms of those agreements have now been published in the Federal Register. Read all about them here.… Continue Reading
The mystery of the fourth SoundExchange settlement agreement has been solved. That agreement is with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and it extends through 2015 (with some tweaks) the terms of the SoundExchange/CPB agreement reached months ago.… Continue Reading
Last month we referred to the "pureplay" settlement as the "final piece" of the webcasting puzzle. Our bad. Turns out there were more settlements - four separate ones, to be exact - still to be completed.… Continue Reading
It's only been a few weeks since the Webcaster Settlement Act was enacted and already it's working! A settlement agreement reached under that Act covers webcast royalty rates for "pureplay" webcasters for the years 2006-2015.… Continue Reading
The Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 -- not to be confused with the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 -- is about to become law. Will it affect you?… Continue Reading
