5 posts and columns on SoundExchange

Digital Music Deal Nearly Done, but Web Radio Darling Pandora Not Out of the Woods

in Media on November 6, 2008 at 3:23 pm PT

Web music site operators and the music industry have worked out the major points in a deal that will reduce the fees Web site operators will pay for music streaming rights. A final deal between the Digital Media Association, which is representing the Web sites, and SoundExchange, which collects royalties on behalf of the music labels and other copyright owners, isn’t expected until later this year. But “the hard stuff has been done,” says Pandora founder Tim Westergren, who has become the public face of Webcasters during negotiations.

Web Broadcasters Postpone Plans for 'Millennium of Silence'

in News on July 13, 2007 at 11:58 am PT

Looks like the Day of Silence protest staged by Web radio outlets on June 26 isn’t going to become the daily event many had feared. At least not yet. Internet broadcasters will not have to start paying sharply higher royalties next week, though the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., yesterday refused to halt [...]

Web Broadcasters Postpone Plans for ‘Millennium of Silence’

in News on July 13, 2007 at 11:58 am PT

Looks like the Day of Silence protest staged by Web radio outlets on June 26 isn’t going to become the daily event many had feared. At least not yet. Internet broadcasters will not have to start paying sharply higher royalties next week, though the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., yesterday refused to halt [...]

You Are Falling Into a Deep Sleep … When You Awake, You Will Do My Bidding.

in News on June 26, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Webcasters to SoundExchange: No, It's Not an All-Day Listening Party for John Cage’s '4?33?'

in News on June 26, 2007 at 1:56 am PT

If things continue as they are, the Buggles may have to re-record their 1979 New Wave masterpiece with a new lyric: “Imbeciles Killed the Radio Star.” Thousands of Internet radio stations went quiet today in observance of a “Day of Silence” organized to protest a catastrophic increase in royalty rates that threatens to cripple Internet [...]