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Internet Radio Shutdown averted?]
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:44:16 -0400 (EDT)
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Internet Radio Shutdown averted? From: "Dan Lynch" <dan () lynch com> Date: Sun, July 15, 2007 1:29 am To: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Salon:
On Thursday, the House Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, convened an emergency round-table meeting between both sides in the royalty dispute. At the meeting, SoundExchange agreed to cap the $500-per-channel fee that had threatened to wipe out Pandora and other stations that let people tailor radio channels to their taste. Westergren says the cap "was a precursor to any kind of negotiation, because that fee was so absurd. It was like a billion dollars for us and other large webcasters put together every year." Now, stations like Pandora will pay $500 for each radio channel they send out, with a maximum of $50,000. More at http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/07/13/internet_radio/ ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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