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Small Webcasters take on RIAA
News The Webcaster Alliance has been threatening to sue the RIAA for months, after Congress ratified royalty rates for Internet radio stations that many small operators said will drive them out of business.
[August 28, 2003, 12:09]
Copyright bill may severely limit rights
News Last month, the Library of Congress set royalty fees for Web radio companies, ruling they would pay 0.07 cent, or about a 14th of a cent, for each song played for a single listener. The Copyright Office recommended that Congress amend the Copyright...
[July 12, 2002, 8:02]
Small Webcasters get fee reprieve
News Small companies, which had complained the fees would put them out of business, were close to winning separate rules in a compromise bill in the US Congress. However, the record industry-backed SoundExchange -- the group tasked with overseeing and...
[October 21, 2002, 8:58]
Royalty fees threaten Net radio
News Thursday's decision by the Librarian of Congress caps years of bitter wrangling between record labels, online companies and old-fashioned radio stations. As part of landmark digital copyright legislation passed in 1998, Congress said "Webcasters...
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
Small Webcasters put faith in latest bill
News The Webcasting fees, put in place by a joint decision of the Librarian of Congress and the US Register of Copyrights, have sent a wave of panic rippling through the small Webcasting community. Passage of the bill will be difficult this year, as...
[July 29, 2002, 11:28]
Napster fury fills the Senate
News The battle over online music drew stars to US Congress on Tuesday, as singer Alanis Morissette and former Eagles musician Don Henley joined Napster and record label executives to debate the future of Net music.
[April 4, 2001, 9:01]
Putting a price on Net music
News Although many of these companies are itching to experiment with new kinds of personalization features and custom stations, they are hemmed in by a set of laws and regulations passed by Congress in 1995 and 1998.
[July 30, 2001, 10:56]
Net radio fees push some broadcasters underground
News Three weeks ago, the US Librarian of Congress set rules for the amounts online radio stations must pay for the rights to play music online. The 39-year-old McLeod, a game designer who works out of his home in England, is the author of Streamer, a...
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
Royalties killed the Web radio star
News The decision by the Librarian of Congress is the result of a protracted battle that pitted the labels against Webcasters and smaller radio stations. The first commercial radio station to stream its programming live via the Web has quit, making good...
[July 22, 2002, 10:36]
Yahoo delves deeper into Web
News To this end, it has aligned with the Library of Congress, UCLA, National Public Radio, the University of Michigan and Project Gutenberg, among others, to begin seeding its index with fresh, searchable material for Web surfers' queries.
[March 2, 2004, 7:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On the other side, the American record industry association RIAA failed to get its requested airtime rates through the Library of Congress -- which would, if passed, have shut down most of the small Internet radio stations.
[May 27, 2002, 17:26]
Music industry casts new net for streaming royalties
News The US Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress, is expected to issue a decision on the debate by the end of the year. In addition, SoundExchange could tap a new source of revenue if it gets a favourable ruling from the US Copyright Office...
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
Anti-piracy bill may hit consumers
News Joseph Biden has become one of the newest field marshals in Congress' intellectual property wars. Biden's proposed additions to copyright law come as Congress is under increasing pressure. There's a simple reason for that: Congress only has about...
[July 30, 2002, 6:27]
RealNetworks streams into mobiles
News RealNetworks is expected to demonstrate a version of its RealOne media player for Microsoft Windows CE and Pocket PC platforms at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes this week. The RealOne demo on Pocket PC will come as RealNetworks unveils its...
[February 19, 2002, 12:15]
Developer interest in Bluetooth decays
News This could mean a tough sell for the Bluetooth faithful, who are expected to place special emphasis on applications support at this week's Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, Monaco. We started working with [Bluetooth], and we built a bunch of stuff...
[June 5, 2001, 8:52]
HP: How the mobile industry can do better
News ZDNet UK grabbed some time with Phil McKinney, chief technology officer for HP's network and service provider business unit, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. It's got five radios in it, it's the most radio-dense device in the world.
[February 13, 2007, 15:54]
Q&A: Ericsson GPRS chief on security and roaming
News ZDNet France caught up with him at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, and talked to him about GPRS roaming and security issues. Q: Mobile email and intranet access is one of the services being heavily promoted at 3GSM World Congress this year.
[February 22, 2002, 12:43]
Knowledge experiences exponential growth
News That, said researchers at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, amounts to the print collections of the Library of Congress -- 500,000 times over. It sought to canvas four storage media (print, film, magnetic and optical) and...
[October 29, 2003, 9:00]
T-Mobile and Orange to pilot mobile TV
News On Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the operators said they would "jointly pilot a new mobile TV and multimedia broadcast service" in the second half of this year. On Tuesday, the operators said those participating in the new...
[February 12, 2008, 17:26]
Broadcom cleans up noisy mobiles
News American chipmaker Broadcom announced a new technology to increase the range and reliability of mobile phone communications on Tuesday, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. In other words, it enhances one of the core techniques used to extract...
[February 14, 2006, 11:15]
