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Save Our Internet Radio is a new blog launched this week in response to the proposed royalty rates recently announced by the US Copyright Royalty Board. The site is managed by Bill Goldsmith, who started the popular online station ParadiseRadio

As we've discussed previously here and here, the recent rate hike by the Copyright Royalty Board could spell the end of internet radio stations. As a recap, here's the story from Wired News. In the old, percentage-based fee system, webcasters paid SoundExchange

That is a powerful statement, suggesting an ominous and most unwelcome scenario. It was shared by Clyde Scott, who manages 24/7 bluegrass cybercaster bluegrassradio.org, as a comment to Brance's post yesterday on the proposed new Copyright Roaylty Board fee

Rural Rhythm Records has just announced the signing of a digital distribution agreement with existing physical distributor RYKO. RYKO has been handling physical "brick & mortar" distribution for Rural Rhythm for over ten years. Our goal is to provide our artists

Internet radio has become a great way to hear bluegrass in the last few years. I talk with more and more people who listen online. Now the RIAA has successfully convinced the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) to adopt at "per

Continued stuggles over how digital downloads will be handled has led to a clash between ASCAP and the DiMA (Digital Media Association), representing such online vendors as Yahoo, Apple and AOL. The performing rights organization is trying to convice the

Many products these days come with a money back guarantee of some sort. Jason Feinberg at the Music Business Blog suggests that maybe artists should consider offering a guarantee when a consumer purchases their music. It's an interesting idea that

The February 2007 issue Journal of Political Economy contains a story written by Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard University) and Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas) which claims to have found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale

Yesterday I posted about about the controversy that Steve Jobs stirred up with his open letter to the music industry concerning digital downloads and DRM. Today two things caught my attention while doing some reading online. The first is a rumor

Two days ago Apple CEO Steve Jobs ignited a fire that is still burning in the music industry. DRM, Digital Rights Management, is all over the news thanks to an open letter he posted on the Apple.com website. Jobs called