 RAIN 12/31: CRB proposes "census" royalty reporting ·Dec 31, 10:13 AM PROPOSAL COULD MOST IMPACT TERRESTRIAL STATIONS STREAMING ONLINE, SAYS OXENFORDThe Copyright Royalty Board yesterday issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (PDF here) that would require “full census reporting” of all songs played by any online music service paying royalties to SoundExchange. Internet radio, satellite radio, digital cable radio, online streams of terrestrial radio, and music broadcasted to cellphones would be covered by the new royalty reporting requirement. Industry attorney David Oxenford (pictured left)  predicts, “Where this change is likely to have the most impact is in connection with the operations of broadcasters who also stream their programs on the Internet.” He notes that noncommercial terrestrial broadcasters may not have the manpower to maintain such records, while large commercial stations could have trouble “when dealing with syndicated programming, where the syndicator does not provide the necessary information about the recordings that it includes in its programming to the stations that carry such programs.” Webcasters may be less seriously affected because many were already using the census method either under the Small Webcasters Settlement Act or as part of other deals.Comments on the proposal are due by January 29. Oxenford writes, “Parties that will be impacted by this proposal should start gathering their information now…If there are improvements that can be made in the system, now is the time to ask.” For more on the CRB’s proposal, read Oxenford’s coverage and analysis at his Broadcast Law Blog here. The proposal would require online music services to submit to SoundExchange the name of every song played and how often it aired, along with metadata such as artist and album name. The CRB reasons this census method is more accurate than the previous system under which SoundExchange made projections based on two weeks of reporting every quarter. With more precise reporting, artists can be compensated fairly based on how often their music is actually aired. BILLBOARD SAYS PANDORA iPHONE APP WILL HELP MUSIC INDUSTRYIn Billboard’s “The Year in Music & Touring” feature, it selected Pandora as one of the five iPhone applications that will help the music business. “This online radio service has always been a favorite,” writes Antony Bruno. “Although [there has been] some question whether the company can convert that interest to real profit given the increased licensing fees for streaming music. One key could be Pandora’s iPhone app…It has opened the door to other mobile streaming music apps from Clear Channel, Last.fm and imeem.” Read more at Billboard here.
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Hey CRB: accuracy means nothing if the artists aren’t getting paid in the first place. Prove the money is making it to a majority of the artists in a fair and fully accounted fashion first, and then we’ll talk about refining the data collection process.
— bhance · Dec 31, 03:23 PM · #
yeah PROVE it, SX.
THEN we can actually send artists to you with SSN# and TAX ID forms in hand.
happy new year to all!
— jeffory Hylton-Simmons · Dec 31, 10:48 PM · #