CRB Beginning Rate Proceedings for Mechanical Royalties, Satellite, Noncommercial Broadcasters
The Copyright Royalty Board said it’s beginning three new proceedings to set music royalty rights for 2018-2022. One proceeding will deal with public digital performances of sound recordings via satellite radio and “preexisting subscription services” like SiriusXM’s satellite service. The…
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proceeding’s outcome will also apply to cable radio’s “pre-existing subscription services,” CRB said in a draft notice to be published in Tuesday’s Federal Register. The other CRB proceedings will deal with mechanical royalties and royalties for public performances of musical compositions by NPR, PBS affiliates and other noncommercial broadcasters, the CRB said. The mechanical royalties proceeding “is one proceeding where the record labels and the digital music services are actually more or less on the same side -- litigating against the publishing companies and songwriters over how much is paid for the use of the words and music of a particular song,” said Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford in a blog post Monday. Assuming the proceedings appear in Tuesday’s Federal Register, interested parties would need to file petitions to participate by Feb. 4, with hearings on the proceedings likely occurring in 2017, Oxenford said.