The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA).
A "performance" is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener; thus a station that has an average audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 "performances" for each song it plays.
The minimum fee is $500 per channel per year. There is no clear definition of what a 'channel' is for services that make up individualized playlists for listeners.
For noncommercial webcasters, the fee will be $500 per channel, for up to 159,140 ATH (aggregate tuning hours) per month. They would pay the commercial rate for all transmissions above that number.
According to the comScore Arbitron ratings report for November 2006, the AOL Radio Network had a average audience ("AQH") between 6AM and Midnight of 210,694 listeners. Multiplied by about 16 songs per hour, 18 hours per day, and 31 days per month, plus adding an additional 10% to account for overnight (Mid-6AM) listening, suggests that AOL played about 2.1 billion songs that month. At the CRB's royalty rate ($0.0008 per play), I'm guessing that would create a royalty obligation to SoundExchange for the month of November of about $1.65 million. Annualized, that's about $20 million for 2006.
The RIAA pwns internet broadcasters. Surprised?
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Hopefully there can be a solution to this or there will be 'nothing' to listen to online except stuff provided by the 'big 4'
Us Internet broadcasters do not mind paying royalties we just want a fair rate that will allow us internet broadcasters who do not make profit off this to be able to broadcast without having to have won the mega millions.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out as this affects non commercial, commercial, which means from the likes of Clear Channel to NPR to the religious casters, to the indie broadcaster, we are all affected.
Us Internet broadcasters do not mind paying royalties we just want a fair rate that will allow us internet broadcasters who do not make profit off this to be able to broadcast without having to have won the mega millions.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out as this affects non commercial, commercial, which means from the likes of Clear Channel to NPR to the religious casters, to the indie broadcaster, we are all affected.
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Let's unload! I have a small FM in Texas and we play lots of western swing - new western swing artist - and local texas artist. All good - but nothing Clear Channel would play --and you wouldn't play either, because it's a regional thing. Just like we don't play bluegrass. But we have a great internet audience because they can't find the music in their market -- and in Europe, where W/S in really hot. Some artist/labels have told me they have sold CDs in Demark, Denver, LA. Stockhohm --and on-and-on because of our stream. And I don't make a cent from the stream -- it's an ego thing, I quess. I've had bad artists offer to buy chunks of time to play their music. From this to ASCAP/BMI/SEASAC - it really pissses me off.
When I was a kid buying Motown and the Stones, I would have never known about them unless radio stations were play it. An old fart band director named Paul Whitman started all this pay-for-what-you-play shit in the 30s. Lets find out where he's buried and all go piss on his grave.
When I was a kid buying Motown and the Stones, I would have never known about them unless radio stations were play it. An old fart band director named Paul Whitman started all this pay-for-what-you-play shit in the 30s. Lets find out where he's buried and all go piss on his grave.
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