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Will Internet Radio Survive the Royalty Sting?

Authored by Scott Goldberg on March 8, 2007 - 9:04pm.
Radio Cartoon Things seem backward in Audio Entertainment (AE) World.  XM-Sirius (or Xirius, as Doc Searls called it in his blog) looks like it might fall apart because of…what?  FCC pride?  That’s one explanation.  They created a rule at satellite’s outset saying one entity couldn't own both licenses.  But the landscape has changed so much since then that it’s preposterous to believe a merged entity represents a real anti-competitive threat.  Now internet radio stations, per the infinite wisdom of the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), will face a royalty fee per stream (yes, each stream), making business, as many of them know it, potentially impossible.
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