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SoundExchange Pureplay Webcasters Agreement (PDFs Attached)

Authored by Ned Sherman on July 13, 2009 - 10:59am.

Last week, we reported that SoundExchange, the firm set up by the major record labels to collect and distribute digital royalties, announced that it has agreed on new streaming music royalties for "pureplay" commercial webcasters. For those of you interested in the specifics of the deal, here are "Exhibit A - Agreed Rates and Terms for Commercial Webcasters Including Small Pureplay Webcasters" and "SoundExchange's Letter to the Copyright Office about the Agreement."

Negotiation Period Opens for New Streaming Music Royalty Rates

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 9, 2004 - 3:50am.

Washington -- The U.S. Copyright Office this week announced the opening of voluntary negotiations between record labels and webcasters to determine new royalty rates for streaming music online. The current rates, which expire this year, were arrived upon only after a bitter and prolonged arbitration process that some small webcasters are still protesting as being prohibitively high for them to continue broadcasting. Another CARP (Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel) organized by the Copyright Office will be convened if new rates for the period of Jan. 1, 2005 through Dec. 31, 2006 cannot be agreed upon in the open market. The current negotiation period will remain open for six months.

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