Copyright Royalty Board
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) is a
May 2007 webcasting royalty increase
On May 1, 2007, after 48 days of oral testimony (and 13,288 pages of written testimony), the Copyright Royalty Board set new rates for
The law requires rates to be based on the price that would be set by a marketplace of willing sellers and willing buyers. Much of the discussion focused on the definition of "willing seller". The Board decided that an individual
An issue that smaller webcasters raised was the desire to be assured that their fees would not exceed their revenue. The Board rejected this reasoning in their final decision because the ability of smaller stations to generate revenue from their operations has little or no bearing on the market value of the rights held by the copyright holders.
A coalition of webcasters that included
License fee rates
Commercial webcasters, per play, per listener rate[5]
Year | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rate (dollars) | 0.0008 | 0.0011 | 0.0014 | 0.0018 | 0.0019 |
There is a minimum annual fee of $500 per channel or station, payable in advance, against the above per-play fees.
For example, under the 2007 rate, 100 unique listeners of a transmission of a sound recording will cost the transmitter eleven cents. The same 100 listeners previously cost a service a little over seven-and-a-half cents from 1998 through 2005. If a service plays an average of 15 songs an hour, and a listener listens for 9.1 hours a week (the average amount according to recent Bridge reports), the listener would cost the service $0.66 a month.
Noncommercial webcasters[6]
Annual fee $500 per channel or station, up to a total of 159,140 aggregate tuning hours (ATH) per month. After this, the per-play rate for commercial webcasters applies. etc.
See also
- Library of Congress
- United States Copyright Office
- Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel
- SoundExchange
References
- ^ "Mar 6, 2007 web increases" (PDF).
- ^ Jacqui Cheng (2007-03-20). "NPR fights back, seeks rehearing on Internet radio royalty increases". Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ^ Eric Bangeman (2007-04-16). "Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal". Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ^ Mark Hefflinger (2007-04-16). "Copyright Judges Reject Webcaster Appeals on New Royalty Rates". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-19.
- ^ "Mar 6, 2007 commercial rates on page 47" (PDF).
- ^ "Mar 6, 2007 non-commercial rates on page 61 and 62" (PDF).