Google Meets the Financial Press
Google held an all-day briefing for financial analysts and press yesterday at the Googleplex. If you’re so inclined to listen to the five sessions yourself, you can listen to the webcast. If you’re looking for the high points, you can find some thorough coverage at Barron’s blog, Tech Trader Daily: Search and Apps – Jonathan [...]
Pearl Jam Accuses AT&T Of Censoring Webcast
When a "live" webcast of grunge band legend Pearl Jam’s Lollapalooza performance didn’t make it to the audience in tact, the band immediately pointed a finger at AT&T, who sponsored and monitored the event, accusing the telecommunications giant of censorship. What in the future may be viewed as AT&T’s colossal blunder has intensified the Network [...]
RIAA’s Newest Enemy: The Social Network
They’ve been railing against peer-to-peer for some time now, and more recently have put the squeeze on webcasters via royalty hikes, but it looks like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has added a new foe to its ever-expanding list: social networkers. They must have read Entertainment Media Research’s survey, which is limited to [...]
Most Web Music Indie, But Stations Still Pay
Talk about getting it from both ends. If you haven’t been following the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) downright persecution of the webcasting industry, you might be surprised to know that not even stations that play independent music can get beyond the RIAA’s reach. DailyKos pointed out back in April that SoundExchange and the [...]
Webcasting Reprieved At Last Minute
New royalty rates for webcasting go into effect on Sunday, but SoundExchange will not immediately attempt to collect them from members of the Copyright Royalty Board. In punishment terms, it’s a stay of execution, not a pardon. Encouraging news emerged from Washington at a last-minute hearing on new royalty rates to be charged to online [...]
Webcasters Will Have To Pay Up On Sunday
It’s a sad day for small Internet radio stations, to be followed by a painful Sunday. The US Court of Appeals denied an emergency stay of execution requested by Webcasters to postpone royalty payment hikes implemented by the Copyright Royalty Board. The reasoning sounds rather bureaucratic. The court said opponents of the CRB had "not [...]
DC To Webcasters: Drop Dead
Whatever happens with web radio from this point forward will depend on whatever concessions webcasters can wrest from SoundExchange and the record labels that back it. If the SaveNetRadio coalition had hopes a Democratic majority might help it stave off a crippling royalty increase, they can probably pack those hopes in a sack, add a [...]
Yahoo Turns Off The Radio
A Day of Silence has swept across the bandwidth of a number of music webcasting services as they protest new royalty rates that could put them out of business for good.If you want to hear the future of web radio with the Copyright Royalty Board’s new rates in place, chances are your regular music listening [...]
Small Webcasters Offered Royalty Discount
SoundExchange, the U.S. organization that collects online royalties for the music industry, says that it will allow smaller Internet radio stations pay a reduced fee. Under their proposal webcasters making less than $1.2 million a year would pay 10 percent of all gross revenue, up to $250,000, and 12 percent of all gross revenue above [...]
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