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
The Copyright Royalty Board has proposed -- again -- to impose a $500 annual payment requirement for non-interactive webcasters. If you want to comment on the proposal, you have until January 22.… 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
The D.C. Circuit has (with one minor exception) affirmed the 2007 webcasting royalty decision of the Copyright Royalty Judges, AFTER the private parties affected by the royalty decision had worked out various deals largely circumventing the CRJ decision. And for the second time in two weeks, the Court has mentioned, without resolving, serious questions about the constitutionality of the CRJs.… 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
As previously reported, a number of public radio entities settled with SoundExchange regarding the payment of royalties and filing of certain information regarding songs played over the Internet for the years 2006-2010, We've got a little more information now on who these stations will be dealing with.… Continue Reading
We've created a handy step by step, we question/you answer format to figure out your options in light of SoundExchange/NAB and SoundExchange/CPB agreements that were made effective with publication in the Federal Register on March 3, 2009. Check it out.… Continue Reading
