More on internet radio copyright

I saw this at BusinessWeek online today:

April 16, 2007
The Death of Web Radio?
Olga Kharif

On April 16, right in the midst of the NAB2007 broadcasters conference, the Copyright Royalty Board upheld its earlier decision to impose higher royalty rates on Web radio stations. The stations will have to cough up these royalty payments – 300% to 1,200% higher than the fees they are used to paying -- retroactively. Unless Congress gets involved, that will mean the death of many Web radio stations, whose revenues will fall short of these royalty payments.

I blogged about this previously on March 7, 2007.