Rehearing on Net royalty rates?
p2pnet.net news:- America’s National Public Radio says new federal US Copyright Royalty Board rules mean royalty fees paid by Net radio stations for streaming music for 2006-2010 will sky-rocket.
But the Fat Lady hasn’t stopped singing.
Now, “after petitions and pressure from NPR and other broadcasting organizations, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has agreed to grant motions for a possible rehearing over the controversial, proposed new Internet radio royalty rates,” says FMQB.
“The decision was formally made late Tuesday and the CRB cited a number of petitions from NPR, DiMA, Sound Exchange and many others.”
There’s no guarantee a rehearing will be held, “but in the official order, Chief Copyright Royalty Judge James Scott Sledge wrote that the ‘Copyright Royalty Judges desire to hear the positions of each party on each of the issues raised in these motions’,” says the story.’
“Responses to the motions may be filed no later than April 2, which is also the date that written arguments may be filed on the issues raised by the motions.”
(Cheers, Bill)
Also See:
sky-rocket – MediaLoper and the Big Hit model, March 20, 2007
FMQB – CRB Grants Motion Allowing For Possible Rehearing On Internet Royalty Rates, March 21, 2007
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