 RAIN NEWS FLASH: Senate passes Webcaster Settlement Act; bill now goes to Bush ·Oct 1, 07:58 AM WASHINGTON D.C. – Legislation authorizing SoundExchange to negotiate royalty agreements with webcasters on behalf of copyright owners and performers between now and February 15th has been approved by the U.S. Senate. The Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 (H.R. 7084), passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on Saturday evening, was approved by the Senate yesterday According to a press release issued by the advocacy group SaveNetRadio, “The SaveNetRadio campaign and its members thank the original sponsors of the Internet Radio Equality Act, Congressman Jay Inslee, Congressman Donald Manzullo, Senator Ron Wyden and Senator Sam Brownback for their tireless support and leadership for innovators and artists. “We also thank Chairman Berman, Chairman Conyers, Chairman Leahy, and Ranking Members Smith and Specter for their leadership in support of the Webcaster Settlement Act. Thanks to them and many others in both the House and the Senate, today’s approval of the Webcaster Settlement Act has cleared the way for private negotiations that hopefully will confirm Internet radio’s future.” RAIN Analysis: Supposedly the SX-DiMA and SX-NPR negotiations are going reasonably well — those parties were happy with a December 15th deadline in the bill. Next up after those will hopefully be the SX-SCW (Small Commercial Webcasters) and SX-NAB negotiations, plus negotiations between SX and college broadcasters and between SX and religious broadcasters. DAVID OXENFORD WEIGHS IN ON WEBCASTER BILLMany observers of Congress’ approval of the webcasting bill are declaring the salvation of Pandora and Internet radio. Not so fast says industry attorney David Oxenford. The bill does not set new, affordable royalty rates for webcasters. And the bill does not change the controversial “willing buyer/willing seller” standard on which rates and terms are based. Read David’s full article in his Broadcast Law Blog here.
LIVE365 CALLS FOR SWSA TERMS TO BE INCLUDED IN POTENTIAL SETTLEMENTWebcast aggregator and streaming provider Live365 is proposing that the rates and terms of the Small Webcaster Settlement Act (SWSA) (details in RAIN here) be part of any sound recording royalty settlement between webcasters and SoundExchange, now made possible through new legislation.
Yesterday the Senate passed a bill (which the President will presumably enact) that will enable webcasters and SoundExchange to negotiate industry-wide royalty terms (see today’s lead story). “All parties have recognized the importance of a vibrant small webcaster community by providing them special rates and terms from the beginning,” Live365 CEO Mark Lam said in the press release. ADOBE MAY BRING FLASH TO iPHONE…WITH APPLE APPROVALA senior engineer at Adobe Systems confirmed at a conference that his company is developing a Flash player for the Apple iPhone, reports FlashMagazine.com (here). Naturally, as the iPhone platform is closely guarded, Apple would have any final approval. A fully-functioning Flash player would enable (among other applications) the device to access Internet radio streams without the need for a downloaded application.HIPCRICKET REVENUE DOUBLESMobile marketing company HipCricket’s revenues more than doubled in their first year, rising from $1.89 million from $860,000. HipCricket said it’s conducted 17,000 ad campaigns using its network of about 400 affiliate stations, reports Tom Taylor in Radio-Info.SIRIUS XM BEGIN CROSS-PLATFORM PROGRAMMINGHoward Stern now appears on XM’s website while Opie & Anthony can be found on Sirius’, revealing that the merged companies have begun cross-platform programming. For more, read FMQB’s coverage here.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
Comment Other stories RAIN 7/2: UK's Telegraph says DAB's been a problem; Internet radio "the solution" RAIN 7/1: Obama approves Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 News Flash: President signs Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 RAIN 6/30: New York Times picks 7 stand-out mobile radio apps, including FlyCast and Sirius XM RAIN 6/29: Autonet selling in-car Wi-Fi directly to consumers RAIN 6/26: Nielsen study shows radio down, but not out, among teens RAIN 6/25: Google selling ads in mobile apps; FlyCast creates unique WEEI app NPD: "Tweeters" almost twice as likely to listen to Net radio as others online RAIN 6/23: Stern blames rights issues for iPhone snag RAIN 6/22: Dahl to return to radio will daily podcast |
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