 RAIN 5/2: Webby Awards emcees, ASCAP decision, Internet clock-radio ·May 2, 11:20 AM “30 ROCK’S“ FRANK ROSSITANO TO CO-HOST WEBBY AWARDS: Stand-up comedian Judah Friedlander, who stars as comedy writer Frank Rossitano (pictured) on OXENFORD: ASCAP DECISION USED ‘WILLING BUYER, WILLING SELLER’ MODEL: In his Broadcast Law Blog, attorney David Oxenford writes, “A decision by a US District Court in New York was just released, setting the rates to be paid to ASCAP for the use of their composers’ music by Yahoo!, AOL and Real Networks…at 2.5% of the revenues that MORE ON YESTERDAY’S ASCAP DECISION: From Portfolio.com’s Tech Observer blog: “How do songwriters get paid — or should they get paid — for music streaming from someone’s MySpace page? Or from an AOL Radio station? The sites and record labels and music publishing groups keep pushing and pulling in the courts about this. Now a federal judge has set up a formula at the request of ASCAP — and it could mean the likes of AOL, Yahoo and RealNetworks have to pay a total of $100 million to ASCAP’s songwriters. DEVICE OF THE DAY: ALURATEK CLOCK RADIO: cNet snarkily writes, “If you’re anything like us, the idea of waking up to music is enticing, but we keep our alarm clock share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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the totally-excellent TV program “30 Rock,” will emcee The Webby Film and Video Awards on June 9th; on June 10th, current “Saturday Night Live” cast member and “Weekend Update” co-anchor Seth Meyers will headline the 12th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street. “People’s Voice” voting closed yesterday at midnight, with a near-three-way tie between AccuRadio, the 
were received by these services in connection with the music portions of their websites. These rates were set by the Court, acting as a rate court under the antitrust consent decree that was originally imposed on 
That legal battle is far from over, so the rule may or may not stick. (Just to put this into perspective, 
set on the buzzer mode because there’s nothing worth listening to on FM radio. The Aluratek Internet Radio Alarm Clock with Built in WiFi (yes, that is the actual product name) has no such limitations, allowing you to wake up to Internet radio, music on a networked PC, a connected 
