Last week, I wrote how the recent large increase in performance royalty rates for digital streaming music were bad for radio not only because it would make the radio industry's forays into the online sphere slower and more expensive, but also because the rate increase was only the first battle for Sound Exchange and the RIAA. They are increasing rates for online streamers because it's an easier battle to fight since they don't have as much clout as the radio industry. However, once they get that precedent established, they are coming after radio.
I figured that Sound Exchange and the RIAA would at least wait until the debate about internet royalty rates was settled before they started to come after radio. Instead, last week this was reported at CNet :
"Howard Berman, the California Democrat who now heads the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, wonders if it's time for everyone to pay the same fees. 'Is it finally time for a performance right to extend to terrestrial radio?'"
Last week, I wrote how the recent large increase in performance royalty rates for digital streaming music were bad for radio not only because it would make the radio industry's forays into the online sphere slower and more expensive, but also because the rate increase was only the first battle for Sound Exchange and the RIAA. They are increasing rates for online streamers because it's an easier battle to fight since they don't have as much clout as the radio industry. However, once they get that precedent established, they are coming after radio.
I figured that Sound Exchange and the RIAA would at least wait until the debate about internet royalty rates was settled before they started to come after radio. Instead, last week this was reported at CNet :
"Howard Berman, the California Democrat who now heads the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, wonders if it's time for everyone to pay the same fees. 'Is it finally time for a performance right to extend to terrestrial radio?'"
Read full article at: http://welcome.preppermint.net/content/view/55/33/.
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