 RAIN 12/23: RAIN Summit goes international ·Dec 23, 12:44 PM RAIN HITS TORONTO FOR INAUGURAL RAIN SUMMIT NORTH AT CANADIAN MUSIC WEEKWe here at RAIN are happy to announce that the first-ever RAIN Summit North will take place Friday, March 12, 2010 during Canadian Music Week (CMW) in Toronto. CMW is arguably the premier radio and music conference in North America, featuring an amazing week of workshops, conferences, award shows, and the chance, at night, to hear hundreds of bands in dozens of venues in one of the world’s greatest cities.The Summit will host a range of speakers, The RAIN Summit North will start at 2:45PM on March 12 at the Royal York Hotel. Panels and presentations end at 5:45PM, at which point the cocktail party begins. As a special accommodation to help new visitors discover this fantastic conference, RAIN readers who are attending CMW for the first time will be eligible for a 50% discount from registration prices! More information about the Summit can be found here. iHEARTRADIO COMING TO ANDROID DEVICESTomorrow, Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio mobile application becomes available for Android users. The app is compatible with any device running Android 1.5 or higher (that includes the Motorola Droid, Samsung Moment and HTC Droid Eris, among others). iHeartRadio tunes in to nearly 400 Clear Channel radio streams — including artist-directed channels from the likes of The Eagles and Weezer — and is already available for the iPhone and Blackberry devices.
NET-USING AMERICANS SPENT 13 HOURS A WEEK ONLINE IN 2009According to data from Harris Interactive’s poll, the average American Internet user spent 13 hours a week online this year. That’s down from last year, when users spent 14 hours a week online. However, due to the increasing popularity of social networks and online video, “chances are that the average number of hours spend online will continue to grow up slowly over the next few years.” Users between 30 to 39 spend the most time online at 18 hours a week. Find out more from ReadWriteWeb here.CRB PUBLISHES DiMA/SX NEGOTIATED CAP ON MINIMUM FEES FOR COMMENTThe Copyright Royalty Board has published the details of the proposed cap on minimum fees for commercial and noncommercial webcasters operating under the CRB terms for the 2006-2010 period. Under the CRB’s 2007 determination, webcasters are charged a minimum of $500 a year per channel (this includes broadcasters’ Internet-only “side channels”), which could conceivably ramp up very quickly for webcasters like AccuRadio (450+ channels) and Pandora (which allows each listener to create up to 100 channels).
Lawmakers who understood the danger this posed to the young webcasting industry pressured SoundExchange to negotiate a more reasonable structure for minimum fees. In 2007, SoundExchange and DiMA announced a settlement for DiMA-represented operations which capped minimum fees at $50,000 (RAIN coverage here). Now, the CRB proposed rulemaking would avail all commercial webcasers that operate under the statutory webcasting terms for 2006-2010 (that is, not those webcasters that operate under various negotiated settlements, see RAIN’s round-up of those deals here) of the $50,000 cap on minimum fees. The proposed rulemaking includes the same $500 minimum fee per channel for noncommerical webcasters, but without the $50,000 cap. Comments or objections to the proposed cap are due by January 22, 2010. PUBLISHER’S NOTE: RAIN will return on Monday, December 28. Happy Holidays! share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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