Same as it ever was: as they start in on the next five-year period with new rates and terms announced in Webcasting IV, webcasters must again attend to annual SoundExchange homework. It’s been a month since I wrote about Webcasting IV, the decision of the Copyright Royalty Board that set webcasting rates and terms for the next five years. We still haven’t actually seen the CRB’s full decision, so there still might be some nuances to the ruling that weren’t previously apparent in the initial announcement of rates/terms. And even without those nuances, we’ve seen some controversy surrounding the ruling from many camps. SoundExchange (along with the record labels and artists for whom it collects royalties from those engaged in streaming) isn’t happy that the royalty rates didn’t increase by very much. It’s presumably even less happy that in some instances (like the rates for commercial broadcasters and certain subscription services)…
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