New royalty rates for webcasters announced!

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA).

RAIN has learned the rates that the Board has decided on, effective retroactively through the beginning of 2006. They are as follows:
(more here)
http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/0...ndex.shtml

http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php...t=60  (4 pages)

Try http://www.radioparadise.com  Commercial free music. Try it for an hour.

Quite a few years ago a Canadian version similar to this wanted restaurants to pay a royalty fee for playing music in restaurants. They approached me and told me I would have to pay some abstinent fee every year. It was to help Canadian Artists. I walked over to our CD rack and turfed every Canadian artist's CD in the trash while the guy looked at me. I told him when his organization started to represent artist's from Brazil, Mexico, Africa, Thailand etc to come back and see me. I never heard from him again. We payed World music from then on and Canadian artist's never got any play in our town as all the restaurants joined the boycott. Wonder how much clout these guys think they have if you broadcast from Tajikistan or Nigeria...LOL

Good one.

I wonder how long before the good stations go offshore and say 'get stuffed'.

Here's a good service I found thru RAIN.
One I hadn't heard of,    http://www.pandora.com/

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