Copyright Arbitration Panel set rates for Webcasting music
Webcasters discovered that they must pay royalties to the recording labels for use of recorded music originated from CDs. Over-the-air radio and TV stations are exempt from these fees for traditional broadcast use, but now will be hit for large fees for webcasting use. Not only are the fees ruinous, webcasting requires reporting extensive logs of EVERY play. NPR stations did not wait for the Arbitration Panel, and signed an earlier agreement at more favorable terms and the fees are being paid by CPB through 2003, although they too are saddled with the extensive new reporting requirements. The rates, which will be applied retroactively to October 1998 are per each listener on-line
$.0007 for simulcast with commercial radio broadcast or netcast alone.
$.0002 for simulcast with public radio broadcast. (applies only to stations not currently covered by the NPR agreement)
And there are even more playlist restrictions. In any 3 hour period, no more than 3 plays can be made from a given album, and no more than 4 plays of a given artist. That will put a crimp in "top 40s" stations programming, but the limitations hit across all broadcast formats. The first payment (which includes the retroactive amount) is due to the Copyright Office October 20th, and monthly after that.
Note that additional fees also must be paid to ASCAP/BMI/SESAC for music composers rights.
Can you think of any more reasons for selecting public domain music??
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