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- Copyright Board's ringtone decision shows failure of the system
- The Copyright Royalty Board's decision last week to keep composer royalties for downloads at 9.1 cents per song keeps Apple's iTunes store online (OK, the idea that Apple would shut down the key leg of its iPod empire was just corporate posturing) but the Board also set a...
- Tags: Board, Ring Tone, Rate, Copyright Royalty Board, Corporate Governance, Government, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Apple's victory: No music royalty hike. Now what?
- Does this mean it's a moot point, that my blog post this morning - Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing? - is no longer relevant? The Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request by a music publishers association to increase royalties for songwriters...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Copyright Royalty Board, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
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- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- not so fastneither congress, nor google should determine it. The free market should determine it. It's ok, for everyone to have their own format and compete. but when a clear winner arises, that becomes the standard. What's the difference if Google sets the standard or the...
- Tags: Government, Google Inc., U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., digital book policy, book policy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster
- On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?
- Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?RE: Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?So, because sometimes the Internet fails, do we stop using e-mail? Of course not. And a cloud-based application allows collaboration. So of course we'll use it. Otherwise,...
- Tags: INTERNET, cloud computing, Collaboration, Google Inc., Michael Jackson, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-07-04
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Guess Apple won't have to shut down iTunes after all. Apple had warned that if the royalty rate for music downloads increased, iTunes would become unprofitable and they might pull the plug. But the Copyright Royalty Board handed Steve Jobs, as well as...
- Tags: Board, Apple Inc., Royalty, Apple iTunes, Corporate Governance, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?
- It's the other battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley and this one, more like a showdown between the record labels and Apple, could determine the future of music on the iTunes Store. The Washington-based Copyright Royalty Board is expected to rule, by today, on a request by...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Apple iTunes, Pricing, Marketing Research, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Save Pandora, Apple
- Save Pandora, ApplePandora?Pandora? *yawn* Wake me up when Last.fm is in trouble.Pandora is a money loser.iTunes already has Internet Radio.The iPhone has AOL Radio, Last.FM, etc.Pandora is being killed by its inability to raise enough money for what it is doing. It has to pay royalties on the music...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Digital media, Digital music, Pandora, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-13
- Save Pandora, Apple
- I'm a big fan of Pandora, the Internet's best streaming music site and recommendation engine. Recently it has come to light that the service's future is in jeopardy because of new royalties enacted in March 2007 by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board force Pandora to give 70 percent of its...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Pandora, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Webcasters can't reach compromise with SoundExchange; Pandora set to close
- I've been loving the Pandora app on my touch so news that Pandora is about ready to "pull the plug," is a heart-breaker. And yup, the Post reports, it's because of the draconian burden on webcasting royalties sought by SoundExchange and approved by the Copyright Royalty Board....
- Tags: Webcasting, Webcaster, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Webcasters dubious about SoundExchange offer
- After months of negotiations with SoundExchange, the record industry's royalty-collection agency, small Net radio stations say the group's compromise offer is unacceptable, AP reports.Under the latest proposal, small webcasters with earnings of less than $1.25 million a year could pay a cut of annual revenue in royalties, rather than the...
- Tags: Radio, Broadcasting Company, Webcaster, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- More parties join Google copyright lawsuit
- More parties join Google copyright lawsuitBig target...Google is a big target with lots of money. These shameless media companies are trying to extort Google.Google "promptly" addresses complaints. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. These media companies can't get any lower or more disgusting. They won't get another dime from me.The real...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, copyright law, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- Net radio saved from the axe - maybe
- Taking the conflict all the way to the 11th hours and then some, SoundExchange, the broadcasting royalty collection arm of the recording industry, and Internet radio stations have agreed to a certain, limited repreive from what may stations considered a Draconian new rate structure, Wired reports.Under the new proposal, which...
- Tags: Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Congress reluctant to 'save net radio'
- Despite a flood of input from voters, calling for Congress to "save net radio" by overturning the new royalty rates imposed by the Copyright Royalties Board, House members evinced substantial reluctance to get involved at a recent committee hearing, reports Ars Technica. In a meeting of the House Committee on...
- Tags: Web, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- 'Day of Silence' for Internet radio
- Gandhi would be proud of what probably is the Internet's first passive resistance protest--the "Day of Silence" coming to Internet radio on June 26. As a response to a court ruling that imposes huge increases on the royalty rates Internet radio operators must pay - which are applied retroactively, no...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- NPR file suit in net radio royalty conflict
- National Public Radio has joined the ranks of online radio broadcasters objecting to recent ruling to increase music royalty fees, reports the Associated Press.NPR filed a notice with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals this week, stating that it would challenge the ruling by a panel of copyright judges that...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- A meritless lawsuit that's not worth the ink (real or electronic) used to report it
- A meritless lawsuit that's not worth the ink real or electronic used to report itBarratry?From the sounds of the quote, isn't this barratry? IANALThis case is a keeperIf I were Matt Graves, I would have said: "You're trying to sue us into being your customers? Not even Sony was that...
- Tags: Now Let, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2007-05-11
- Pandora founder: help save Internet radio
- Tim Westergren, founder of music discovery service, Pandora, has sent out an email urging Internet radio fans to sign a petition against the recently announcement royalty increase, which means that music streaming services will see a near three-fold increase in the license fees theyll have to pay to the music...
- Tags: Music
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost
- Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. Like teenagers biologically programmed to step across every boundary put in place by their parents, the digerati, equipped with the constantly evolving tools of their trade (everything from YouTube-like video sharing sites to widely available hacks of anti-piracy systems), have been been...
- Tags: Apple, Entertainment, General, Government, Hollywood On Demand, Legal, Personal Technology, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Microsoft The Ecosystem Player -- Love Thy Enemies or Just Co-opt Them?
- Yesterdays Internation Herald Tribune has an article that highlights yet another in a continuing series of moves by Microsoft to expand its ecosystem and, in doing so, bring on board companies and technologies that would have seemed anathema to Microsoft not a short while ago.The new Interop Vendor Alliance (oh...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
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