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Sunday, July 15, 2007
7/15: Net radio gets a break
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you were worried your favorite Internet radio station might be forced off the air today, you’ve been given a reprieve.
SoundExchange, a nonprofit organization which is assigned to collecting royalties for song copyright owners, was supposed to start collecting sharply higher royalties today. But late last week, with a lot of pressure from Net radio fans, SoundExchange told Congress it will continue with the status quo since “good faith” negotiations are continuing.
“For the people who want to comply with the law and are in bona fide negotiations with us, we don’t want those people to be intimidated,” said SoundExchange executive director John Simson to Kurt Hanson, who has his own Net radio operation and newsletter following the business. “And we don’t want them to stop streaming.” Simson qualified his statement by noting, “That’s just so long as they’re continuing to pay under the license they had.”
More information is available here at Kurt Hanson’s site..
