Net Radio Stations: New Fees Will Kill Us.

The article reports on increase in royalty fees that Webcasters pay to record labels beginning July 15, 2007, following the approval of new rates by the U.S. Copyright Office's Copyright Royalty Board. Webcasters will pay $0.0008 per song retroactively to the beginning of 2006, an increase of 5 percent over 2005. That rate climbs 37 percent to $0.0011 per song for 2007, and then will jump another 73 percent to $0.0019 per song in 2010. Royalty rates will be based solely on the number of times a song is played for a listener, not on the revenue the Webcaster makes from playing it.