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SoundExchange Reaches Four Webcaster Agreements

Artists and Broadcasters Will see “Streaming” Benefits for years to come

WASHINGTON, D.C. – SoundExchange

SoundExchange is pleased and proud to announce the completion of four independent agreements with various types of webcasters—including SIRIUS-XM; College Broadcasters, Inc; and the National Religious Broadcasters Music License Committee—governing the royalty rates of sound recordings through 2015. An additional agreement, signed late Thursday night, will be confirmed publicly in coming weeks. While the rates and terms are specific to each group, the tenor of each agreement is to accommodate the needs of the growing webcasting industry, while still considering the rights of artists and rights owners to be compensated when their recordings are played.

SoundExchange and College Broadcasters, Inc. Reach Groundbreaking Agreement on Webcasting Rates

Artists, Students will see Benefits of Streaming

WASHINGTON, D.C. – SoundExchange

SoundExchange and College Broadcasters, Inc. are proud to announce an agreement which will offer special rates to college radio stations which stream sound recordings over the Internet. These terms, along with more lenient recordkeeping requirements, will mean college stations and other noncommercial educational webcasters can pay a minimum fee to compensate artists and rights owners whose recordings are played, and pay standard per-performance rates only when they exceed certain limits on listenership.

SoundExchange, SIRIUS-XM agree to new webcasting rates

Negotiated terms will help artists and business see “streaming” revenue

WASHINGTON, D.C. – SoundExchange

SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization, and SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio are proud to announce a new agreement governing Sirius’s streaming of sound recordings over the Internet. These terms, which include a per-performance rate and a $500 minimum fee per channel, will allow SIRIUS XM to continue growing its business while still considering the rights of artists to be compensated when their recordings are played.

A Joyful Noise: SoundExchange, Religious broadcasters reach agreement on royalty rates

WASHINGTON, D.C. – SoundExchange

SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization, and the National Religious Broadcasters Music License Committee announced early this morning an agreement to govern royalty rates for webcasting for the years 2006-2015. The terms for these noncommercial stations include a reduced per-performance rate from the CRB rate set in 2007 and a more lenient recordkeeping requirement, while still considering the right of artists and copyright holders to be compensated when their recordings are played. The noncommercial stations have agreed to step up to higher rates for the latter half of the term, reflecting the increasing value of sound recordings.

Summer NewsExchange now available

Summer is in full swing, but there’s no lounging on the beach for SoundExchange. We’re busy as always, working on behalf of the artists and labels we represent. This quarter, we’re proud to announce just a few of the benefits of those labors. I hope you have a great summer with family, friends and great music, whether on internet radio or satellite radio or radio stations streaming online. In Washington, online, and in a town near you, SoundExchange will be continuing to work for the fair compensation of the artists and owners of the recordings which make the soundtrack of summer so memorable. read more     On June 30, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 (WSA 2009), which gave SoundExchange the authority to negotiate industry-wide webcaster rates and terms different than those established by the Copyright Royalty Judges. read more     Each quarter, as new copies of NewsExchange fly out our doors, so do royalties collected by SoundExchange from digital streaming services. In this, our 33rd quarterly distribution, $18 million is on its way to artists, performers, and copyright holders. For details about the services and time periods reflected in this quarter’s payments, please refer to your statement. read more     SoundExchange is constantly reaching out to artists, performers, copyright owners, labels, and others, to collect the information we need to get royalty checks to all those who deserve them. It’s not easy to find the thousands of creative people we want to help. So if you know or represent a performer, sound recording copyright owner, or producer who hasn’t yet registered with SoundExchange, let them know we may have money for them. read more     Behind every song we hear is a great story: the time, talent and vision which turn a tune and a few lines of lyric into a finished track we can all enjoy. Too often, the people who make that journey happen are overlooked later: performers, musicians and copyright holders see little of the compensation owed them when all that hard work results in play and profit. read more     SoundExchange is always on the road and out in the field spreading the word about what we do. Click through for a sampling of the events we’ve participated in this quarter. read more     There is an old adage from the newspaper age which warns against “engaging in a war of words with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” In the new media era, the same might be said of broadcasters who, with unlimited access to airtime, seek to spread misinformation about The Performance Rights Act. Undaunted, the musicFIRST coalition releases a ‘Radio Distortion of the Day’ to set the record straight. read more

SoundExchange is a non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio (such as SIRIUS XM), internet radio, cable TV music channels, and similar platforms for streaming sound recordings. The U.S. Copyright Office has entrusted SoundExchange as the sole entity in the United States to collect and distribute these digital performance royalties on behalf of featured and non-featured recording artists, master rights owners (usually record labels), and independent artists who record and own their masters.

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SoundExchange and “PurePlay” Webcasters Reach Unprecedented Experimental Rate Agreement

Music’s creators to share in webcasting revenue and growth

CONTACT: BRYAN CALHOUN 202-640-5894
BCALHOUN@SOUNDEXCHANGE.COM  

WASHINGTON, D.C. – SoundExchange announced today innovative, experimental new terms for “pureplay” commercial webcasters, covering royalties for the Internet streaming of sound recordings that offer the potential for artists and copyright holders to share in the revenue growth of pureplay webcasters.