Web Royalty Rates Debated

The Hollywood Reporter writes that “the Digital Media Assn. and the group representing artists entitled to a share of profits from music streamed online have asked the U.S. Copyright Office to leave untouched for at least a year the rate of royalties owed for Internet radio sound recording. DiMA and Sound Exchange proposed that the royalties, which DiMA believes are already too high, should remain status quo while Congress considers whether to change the process by which arbitrators determine royalties for statutory copyright licenses.”