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College Radio Feels The Effects Of The RIAA
The Harvard Crimson has an article about the effect of the new SoundExchange royalty rates on college radio, at Harvard and throughout the US. From the Crimson: Internet radio’s low overhead allows for...
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RIAA 1, NPR 0: Copyright Royalty Board Denies Motion For Rehearing
Internet broadcasters suffered a blow Monday when the Copyright Royalty Board judges denied a motion for rehearing sponsored by NPR and other broadcasters. The motion denies a rehearing on the grounds...
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Say Goodbye To Pandora?
When SoundExchange, the organization that represents many labels and artists, proposed steep new royalty rates for radio webcasters last year, they shortsightedly killed off their own revenue stream....
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Pandora, Other Internet Radio Stations May Survive After All
Assuming negotiations succeed, you’ll have your Pandora to listen to after all. On Tuesday, Congress passed the Webcaster Settlement Act, which gives Internet radio stations like Pandora until February...
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ASCAP Wants Royalties On Ringtones
Not content to let the RIAA get all the recent publicity for stupid lawsuits, ASCAP has sued AT&T over sales of ringtones, saying each time a ringtone plays it’s a public performance and royalties...
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Judge Tells ASCAP No Royalties For Ringtones
One of the weirder strategies by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) recently has been to claim that every time a ringtone played, a royalty should be paid. ASCAP sued...
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Developers Spiking Homeowner Contracts With Hidden Resale Fee Covenants
Last April, Techdirt pointed out that a financial firm in Texas was trying to attach “private transfer fees” to homes, so that developers would get a little bit of each sale as it passed among owners...
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Trade Agency Judge Shuts Down Kodak's Patent Claim
This digital photography fad isn’t great for companies that built their empires on film, so Kodak seems to be grasping at legal straws to generate some revenue. The company filed a image-previewing...
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California Environmental Nonprofit Says State Redesigned License Plate To Cut...
The California Coastal Commission unveiled a new license plate design featuring a whale’s tale tweaked slightly from the previous design, and an environmental nonprofit said the state did so because...
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How Much Does A Songwriter Earn When Pandora Plays His Song 1.16 Million...
Musician David Lowery has revealed the songwriting royalties he receives from various sources. (TheTrichordist.com)The music industry has experienced multiple earth-shifting changes in the last 15...
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Amazon To Start Paying Some Authors Per Page Read
(Danny Ngan) Less than a week after Amazon announced it had reached a deal with the world’s largest book publisher over sales, the company announced it would begin a new payment system for some...
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Apple Music Changes Its Tune, Will Pay Artists During 3-Month Free Trial
Breaking news: It appears that musicians would like to be paid for their work. After Apple announced it’d be giving customers a free three-month trial of its new streaming Music service, artists and...
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App Loops 30-Second Spotify Snippets To Support Your Favorite Artist
Do you want to support your favorite musicians, but do so without spending any money and without actually listening to their songs? A band came up with a brilliant scheme to extract as much royalty...
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Amazon Will Reportedly Pay Self-Published E-Book Authors $.006 Per Page Read
(Micah Baldwin) Last month, Amazon revealed it planned to begin a new payment system that entailed paying some authors per page read instead of per book purchased. Today, we know a little more about...
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11 Million People Are Trying Apple Music, Some Might Actually Pay In September
Can Apple’s music-streaming service convert its users into paying customers once the service’s trial period is done? How many people have signed up for Apple Music so far, anyway? The company has...
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Spotify Hopes $21 Million Settlement Will Make Musicians Stop Suing
Spotify is the biggest music streaming service, with a wide selection of artists and types of music. That means it has the widest variety of artists who may become annoyed at its royalty structure, or...
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Qualcomm Faces Anti-Trust Lawsuit Over Patents, Licensing
Your phone might say “Apple” or “Samsung” or “LG” on the outside, but inside there are parts from dozens of companies, including Qualcomm, which now stands accused by federal regulators of using...
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