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morenews.jpg Narrow FCC Chairman plans to recommend censure against Comcast Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin plans to recommend that the FCC issue a warning against the ISP for...
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This Week in News
weeknews.jpg Narrow Yahoo! to stop supporting Yahoo! Music after September 30 Starting Oct. 1, customers won’t be able to revive frozen tracks or move working ones onto new hard drives or computers,...
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Court Rules Individual License Fees not Required for Webcasts
Webcasting2.jpg Narrow On Friday, August 21, a New York federal appeals court ruled that a webcasting services that let listeners create taste-customizable "radio stations" (like Pandora) don't have to...
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Do Webcasters Play More Artists Than Traditional Radio?
WEBCAST2.jpg Narrow One company that measures such stats says definitely.While it may not seem like much of a surprise that web radio plays more artists than traditional broadcasters, new data supplied...
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SoundExchange: You May Already Be a Winner!
sx-logo.png Narrow Attention, recording artists and sound recording copyrights owners! Did you know that there may be unclaimed royalties in your name floating around out there on the interwebs? Did...
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EMI's In-House Licensing Move: What Does it Mean for Artists?
digital_music.jpg Narrow [This post was co-authored by FMC Communications Intern Scott Oranburg]EMI Music CEORoger Faxonannounced today that EMI will start directly licensing a sizeable chunk of its...
View ArticleRihanna, Brian Wilson, Everyone Else Suddenly Mad at Pandora
[…]This disconnect between old media companies and new is hilariously illustrated by comments that one of the bill’s sponsors, Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, made recently at the Future of...
View ArticleDeconstructing: Pandora, Spotify, Piracy, and Getting Artists Paid
“Who the [heck] is this guy and why is he trying to sell me a warm sack of [poo]?”This question lit up my mind last week, as I sat in the audience for the Future of Music Coalition Policy [sic] Summit...
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Rising Tides: Envisioning Fair Internet Radio
risingtides1.jpg Narrow [This post by FMC Communications Intern Olivia Brown]On November 28, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. EST, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the...
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Little Support for IRFA at House Subcommittee Hearing
5489127561_1a582284c7_b.jpg Wide [this post by Communications Associate Kevin Erickson and Communications Intern Oliva Brown]There were several surprises in store at the November 27, 2012 House...
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Why Would Pandora Purchase an FM Radio Station?
southdakota.jpg Wide In fall of 2012, major webcaster Pandora— along with satellite radio company Sirius/XM and broadcasting behmoth Clear Channel— pushed for legislation called the Internet Radio...
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Internet Task Force to Seek Public Comment
uspto_seal_500.gif Wide by Michelle Davis, FMC legal internHaving had time to digest a 100+ page report on digital copyright policy, we can report back that this “green paper” covers a range of issues...
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Clear Channel/WMG Deal is No Substitute for Terrestrial Performance Right
warner_music_group_0_112835.jpg Wide by Michelle Davis, FMC Policy InternThis week, Clear Channel Communications, the nation’s largest broadcaster, signed an unprecedented strategic partnership with...
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New Bill to Pay Artists for AM/FM Play
congress.jpg Wide On May 7, 2014, Representatives Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) introduced H.R. 4588, the Protecting the Rights of Musicians Act [PDF], which aims to get performers and...
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Licensing Costs Alone Didn't Doom East Village Radio
EastVillageRadio.jpg Wide In yesterday’s congressional hearing on music licensing, Chris Harrison, VP of Business Affairs at Pandora, expressed concern for the viability of internet radio, making...
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Copyright Hearing Recap: Music Licensing Pt. 2
Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg__0.png Narrow by Juan Carlos Melendez-Torres, FMC Policy InternThe House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet...
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Little Support for IRFA at House Subcommittee Hearing
5489127561_1a582284c7_b.jpg Wide [this post by Communications Associate Kevin Erickson and Communications Intern Oliva Brown]There were several surprises in store at the November 27, 2012 House...
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Why Would Pandora Purchase an FM Radio Station?
southdakota.jpg Wide In fall of 2012, major webcaster Pandora— along with satellite radio company Sirius/XM and broadcasting behmoth Clear Channel— pushed for legislation called the Internet Radio...
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Internet Task Force to Seek Public Comment
uspto_seal_500.gif Wide by Michelle Davis, FMC legal internHaving had time to digest a 100+ page report on digital copyright policy, we can report back that this “green paper” covers a range of issues...
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Clear Channel/WMG Deal is No Substitute for Terrestrial Performance Right
warner_music_group_0_112835.jpg Wide by Michelle Davis, FMC Policy InternThis week, Clear Channel Communications, the nation’s largest broadcaster, signed an unprecedented strategic partnership with...
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