Weapon of Mass Distraction

Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg

July 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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Jake Ward of SaveNetRadio.org

That’s what music artists who support SoundExchange are doing.  The Copyright Royalty Board, a division of the Library of Congress, has established a new fee structure for music radio stations on the Internet.  This new, higher rate goes into effect Sunday, and it’s retroactive to January 1 of last year.  My rough calculations show that a small webcaster with 200 people listening at any given time will pay around $390 a month in royalties for the music it plays.
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