Music Industry Creates New Royalty Rates... But Did They Do So For Systems That Don't Require Royalties?
from the seems-like-it dept
There's been some buzz in music circles about the news that the RIAA, the NMPA (music publishers) and the DMA (digital music companies) have reached an "historic" agreement on mechanical royalty rates, potentially avoiding what often is a contentious rate setting process at the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB). The CRB still needs to approve the deal, but the fact that an agreement was reached outside of having to go through such a contentious process, where the results often seem arbitrary and disconnected from reality, is mostly a good thing.That said, I do have some concerns. Because beyond setting the rates for existing mechanical licenses, the groups also sought to create new rates for new types of service. THR has the details:
- Mixed service bundles (for example, a locker service, limited interactive service, downloads or ringtones combined with a nonmusic product such as a mobile phone, consumer electronics device or Internet service)
- Paid locker services (subscription-based locker providing on-demand streaming and downloads)
- Purchased content lockers (a free locker functionally provided to a purchaser of a permanent digital download, ringtone or CD where the music provider and locker have an agreement)
- “Limited offerings” (subscription-based service offering limited genres of music or specialized playlists)
- Music bundles (bundling music products such as CDs, ringtones and permanent digital downloads)
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Filed Under: copyright royalty board, dma, nmpa, riaa, royalties
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Physical storage units
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Next thing you know, you will have to pay...
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What if when you purchased a song you got the right to play it anywhere within some reasonable distance from your phone? Not stored on your phone or played through your phone's speaker, but on stereo equipment near you, either streaming through your phone or direct from the cloud? Would that be enough for the consumers and for the rightsholders? Could that be a compromise point? Your phone as your digital music wallet. That would be enough freedom for me to make it worth buying.
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RE wrong tab
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Copyright Scope Creep
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." -- Rousseau. This is how the chains are made.
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Grammar
[quote]reached a "historic" agreement on mechanical royalty rates[/quote]
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Companies DiMA represents:
Amazon.com
Apple
BestBuy/Napster
Live365
Microsoft
MTV Networks
Myspace Music
Nokia
RealNetworks/Rhapsody
RightsFlow
Slacker
YouTube
http://www.digmedia.org/about-dima/members
Aside from Youtube, I've never used any of these companies for file storage.
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