Comments on: The Copyright Royalty Board Does Nothing. iTunes’ Rates Remain The Same

By: MADcHATTER

MADcHATTER — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:58:16 +0000

Oh and on your questions about the muscians making music available or music being sold online or even played online? Remeber this…

SoundExchange has given itself the power to collect royalties for bands who arent even members of the RIAA or SoundExchange. This means if a band records a song, puts it out online for play or download then SoundExchange has the “Right” to collect royalties for it for each person who hears it or downloads it. If the Band wants their money, they have to join SE and, after a modest fee of course, they get a small percentage. If they do NOT join, SoundExchange gets to “Keep” the money.

Is it just me or does this seem vaguely remeniscent of old style Mafia Protection Rackets?

By: MADcHATTER

MADcHATTER — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:53:29 +0000

What happened to the challenge filed that the CRB is not a legal entity because these judges appointment violated the Constitutional Appointments law? The Copyright Royalty Judges are “inferior officers” of the Federal government who, under the Constitution, can only be appointed by the President, by the Courts or by the head of a Department of the Government. They were appointed by the “Librarian of Congress” who is not the head of a department of Government but the head of a Support Division of Congress only.

I want to know what happened to the brief filed challenging their appointment? No one seems to know anymore about it. It was filed in late may, early June of 2008.

By: 你推我報 vlog » Apple威脅要關閉iTunes？

你推我報 vlog » Apple威脅要關閉iTunes？ — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:44:19 +0000

[...] iTunes總裁Eddy Cue在這個裁決案浮上檯面之前，就向版權委員會說明過，因為iTunes必須維持99分美元的定價策略，故無法再負擔任何額外成本花費，否則可能導致財務困難而面臨關閉命運。所以當裁決案被披露時，大家都很擔心iTunes的存亡問題。不過現在10月4日已經過去了，iTunes依然在營運。因為版權委員會最後決定：一切照舊。 [...]

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:38:56 +0000

What’s going to happen to Pandora? Does that mean it’s in the clear?

By: Quickthink » Blog Archive » Music and Money

Quickthink » Blog Archive » Music and Money — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:14:19 +0000

[...] Tech Crunch – The prudent thing to do was nothing, which is what the board did [...]

By: TM

TM — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:39:00 +0000

Millions of people pay, millions of people do not. It’s a matter of ability to do so and personal/group values. The recording industry, much like the financial markets is simply reacting to the shock created by rapidly declining physical music sales, because this was the basis of a very profitable, high-margin business.

The major distributors made the mistake of not reading the pace of innovation correctly. They got hit hard by a trifecta of consumer CD burners, MP3 compression and the advent of P2P. If you spent the 90’s paying $15.00 and up for a CD & often multiple copies of the same album, it’s obvious why so many people think the music industry owes them something.

Some music will always be free, some music will be paid for, there will be free shows, some people will pay $200+ for a concert.

By: TM

TM — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:09:20 +0000

No, a flat rate increase simply balloons the publisher/songwriter royalty advance.

By: Mundo Mac » Se rechazan aumentos en regalías; iTunes sigue en pie

Mundo Mac » Se rechazan aumentos en regalías; iTunes sigue en pie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:03:31 +0000

[...] decidiría aumentar o no las regalías a los artistas en la música digital; la CopyRight Royalty no aprobó los cambios. Por ende, la iTunes Store no cerrará ni aumentará sus precios por canción como lo había [...]

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:05:58 +0000

To get a license from labels to sell online permanent download is quite difficult or even impossible except if you are Itune or MTV that’s why you have so much P2P activity. All online shop should be able to sell tracks for permanent download if they pay 0.70 c per track like Itune does.

By: More Music Copyright Royalti Videos

More Music Copyright Royalti Videos — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:24:53 +0000

The new era of music distribution has grown. Hope it can inspiring musician to create more beautifull music

By: Charles Peak

Charles Peak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:46:06 +0000

Paraphrased from yesterday’s article:

Apple pays 70 cents from each track sold to the record companies (which then pay the music publishers, the actual owners of the copyright to each song, their cut)

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 著作権使用料委員会が現状を維持。iTunesの使用料も据え置き

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 著作権使用料委員会が現状を維持。iTunesの使用料も据え置き — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:29:50 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:06:17 +0000

I thought apple paid about 2/3 of the $0.99 to the record companies so what does the 9 cent figure mean?

By: SomeGuy

SomeGuy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:54:01 +0000

Wait, if the rates are effectively 9 cents, does this mean I could setup shop and sell tracks for 10cents (1 cent profit)?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:28:58 +0000

@Sean: I’m guessing you are being sarcastic. In which case LOL!!

By: mrshl

mrshl — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:01:33 +0000

Except when it does happen. Which for millions of people, is quite regularly. Saying there’s no free music is like saying there’s no illegal drug use.

There’s the world as the law says it should be. And then there’s the world we all live in. The best laws are the ones you can enforce. If society doesn’t agree with it, enforcement gets a lot harder.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:56:17 +0000

I’ve never understood TC’s insistence that music will someday be free. It’s just not going to happen, guys.

By: Will J

Will J — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:53:14 +0000

Wouldn’t a percentage effectively be the same as a flat rate, considering how the labels seem unwilling in most cases to let people sell music for below 99 cents?

By: George of the Jungle

George of the Jungle — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:02 +0000

“Until all music becomes free, at least”

And until all musicians take up day jobs.