Sound recording royalties for satellite radio service SiriusXM will rise from 8% of gross revenue to 9% in 2013, and continue to grow 0.5% each year (to 11% in 2017). The Copyright Royalty Board also set the new statutory rates for cable television music services.
Those rates will rise from 8% of gross revenue now to 8.5% for 2014 through 2017.
The CRB announced its determinations late Friday.
This royalty is only for copyright sound recordings (i.e. not compositions), and only for satellite transmissions or cable TV (not webcasting). Most webcasters (including satellite radio and cable television radio when they stream online) pay royalties on sound recordings at a "per-performance" rate. For even the most successful webcasters, this royalty can amount to more than 50% of a company's gross revenue.
Read the brief CRB announcement of rates here.
Holiday music is huge on broadcast and Internet radio this time of year, and it's no different for Pandora.
Here's a great read from The Echo Nest co-founder Brian Whitman, explaining some of the logic on which various "music recommendation" services (including his company's) is based.
We're happy to announce our second-annual RAIN Summit Europe industry event, May 23 in gorgeous Brussels, Belgium. We'll gather with Internet radio leaders from across Europe and around the world at the Hotel Bloom for a full day of informative panels, presentations and networking.
