new royalties for web radio air play

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>]

Und solche arbitrators koennen uns in .de auch kaltlassen:

>Some one asked me how the new proposed royalties compare
>with the fees traditionally paid by radio stations.
>
>This excerpt from a Washington Post article explains this:
>
>A panel of arbitrators assigned by the U.S. Copyright Office
>recommended today that most Webcasters pay record companies 0.14 cents
>for each tune they stream for free to Internet listeners, while
>traditional radio stations should pay 0.07 cents for each tune from
>their AM/FM transmission they simulcast online.
>
>Radio stations have traditionally paid statutory licensing fees to
>royalty collectives representing those who own the right to musical
>compositions - artists who write the songs and their publishers.
>
>That appeared to change after Congress passed the Digital Millennium
>Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 which included a requirement for a
>"performance fee" for digital audio transmissions of recorded music.
>Since record companies generally hold the copyrights to individual
>recordings, the DMCA opened the door to revenue never available from
>radio airplay.
>
>[Source:  http://www.washtech.com/news/media/15268-1.html  ]



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