CRB Freezes Royalty Rate — iTunes Store Safe!
The Copyright Royalties Board have decided to keep the royalty rate for music downloads at 9 cents. An spokesman for Apple said, “we’re pleased with the CRB’s decision to keep royalty rates stable.”
The three-member board that sets statutory copyright licenses e-mailed the Digital Media Association (DiMA), the National Music Publishers’ Association, Apple, and other download stores with its decision to keep the royalty rate 9.1 cents. The board also set the same rate for CDs and mandated established a 24-cents rate for ringtones. The decision is the first time the Board has established mechanical royalty rates for digital downloads.
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Increased Royalty Rate Could Kill Apple iTunes
Later today the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) meet to discuss and decide whether royalty rates for digital downloads should increase from 9 cents to 15 cents per track — a rise requested by National Music Publishers’ Association.
Apple to Make iTunes 8 and iPod Accessible to the Blind
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Your Music Anywhere Via The Web With blueTunes
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A new web service for listening to your own music, not sharing it, has been launched today. Called, blueTunes, it allows users to upload their music collection and listen to it via the web. Going on holiday? Take a laptop and your music will follow. At a party that lacks decent music? (We’ve all been in that situation I’m sure!) Login and blast a few of your favorites favourites!