Bill to save internet radio

On Friday Congress introduced a bill that could nullify the new rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) called the "Internet Radio Eqaulity Act." (IREA). The bills aims to stop the ruling which put royalty of a .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio.

After the march 2 ruling advocates were worried that rates could rise between 300 to 1200 percent for webcasters. The IREA would set new rates at 7.5 percent of the webcaster's revenue the same rate paid by satellite radio.

This bill sounds like a good way to keep the CRB from making the world of internet radio to expensive for little radio stations. More community groups and colleges are using webcasts to broadcast their own radio stations most of them will be forced out of business if the CRB rulling stands.

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