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IFPI Digital Music Report 2013 – Global digital sales and services grew by 9 percent in 2012 to $5.6 billion and drove the first year of music industry growth since 1999 (up 0.3% in 2012). According to the IFPI report, consumer satisfaction with licensed music services is high, with 77 per cent of users of licensed services rating them as excellent, very good or fairly good. (February 2013)
Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings -- Digital Music Broadcast Royalties:The Case for a Level Playing Field. Royalty rates play a crucial role in shaping the digital music broadcasting industry. If rates are too high, the ability of digital broadcasters to provide the public with access to music is impeded. If rates are too low, then recording artists do not receive a fair return on their endeavors. And if rates are inconsistent across different delivery mechanisms, then some business models are favored over others.
This new report by The Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings reconfirms DiMA’s longstanding call for Internet Radio royalty fairness. (August 2012)
Pew Research Center: The Rise of e-Reading -- 21 percent of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them. (April 2012)
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2011–2016 -- Mobile video traffic exceeded 50 percent for the first time in 2011, and average smartphone usage nearly tripled. Read this paper to learn of Cisco’s major global mobile data traffic projections and growth trends.
IFPI Digital Music Report 2012 -- Digital sales and services grew by 8 percent in 2011 to $5.2 billion, while the overall recorded music market which fell 3 percent to $16.2 billion dollars last year. The report also contains interesting data concerning the effectiveness of anti-piracy legislation in impeding infringement.
Pew Research Center: Tablet and E-Book Reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift Giving Period (Jan. 2012)
Copyright and Royalties
On April 11, 2012 DiMA, the RIAA and NMPA filed a proposed settlement for mechanical royalty rates and terms to the Copyright Royalty Board. Read more:
Settlement Terms Fact Sheet (pdf)
115 Settlement (pdf)
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on “The Performance Rights Act and Parity among Music Delivery Platforms” August 4, 2009 Testimony
Bob Kimball, RealNetworks, Inc.
Marian Leighton-Levy, Rounder Records
Steven Newberry, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Ralph Oman, The George Washington Law School
James Winston, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Inc.
Promoting Royalty Parity Among All Radio Technologies
2009 House Judiciary Committee Hearing: Performance Rights Act
2008 House Judiciary Committee Hearing: Performance Rights Act
2008 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: Performance Rights Act
Bob Kimball (Real Networks) Testimony
Joe Kennedy (Pandora) Testimony
Matt Nathanson (Artist) Testimony
Performance Rights Act H.R. 848
Defending Against Songwriters' Efforts to Legislate "Double-Dip" Royalties
1995 Report on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure Copyright law section. See page 70 for performance rights discussion.
2001 Copyright Office Section 104 Report and Hearing Transcript Relevant pages: 162-169
March 10, 2009 Letter to Chairman Conyers and Ranking Member Smith
April 30, 2009 Letter to Chairman Conyers and Ranking Member Smith
DiMA Public Performance Amicus Brief
December 2001 House Judiciary Committee Hearing
Modernizing Music Licensing to Promote Innovative Business Models
17 U.S.C. 115 Copyright Law of the United States of America
Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (H.R. 5553)
Hearing on “Reforming Section 115 of the Copyright Act for the Digital Age”
Reducing Creative and Business Risk by Recognizing “Orphan Works” Exceptions to the Copyright Act
Orphan Works Act of 2008 (H.R. 5889)
Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2009 (S. 2913)
Competition and Network Neutrality
Industry-wide Letter to Members of Congress Supporting Net Neutrality
Center for Democracy and Technology
Vinton G. Cerf (Google Inc.) Testimony
Gary R. Bachula (Internet2) Testimony
Earl W. Comstock (COMPTEL) Testimony
2009 Review Documentation
09_08_04 Performance Rights Hearing Testimony
10_0_09 Small Wcaster Proposal
10_12_09 Memo re Fed Digital Tax Issue
10_15_09 Rpt of Senate Jud Markup
Digital Goods Draft Bill 09_10_09
FCC_NN_Ruling_Against_Comcast_(Aug_08)
Feinstein_Supp_Comments_(Jul_27_09)_v2
Kimball_Senate_Testimony_8-3-09
Live365 CRB Constitutionality Complaint
Live365_Press_release_-_CRB_Constitutionality_issue
Oct_--_DiMA_Response_re_Songwriter_Protection_Provisions_v1
Potential_Changes_to_the_Statutory_License
PRO_Letter_re_PRA_Songwriter_Provisions_(Aug_09)
Songwriter-PRO-Publisher_letter_3-10-09
Letter_to_Stakeholders_re_115_SOA_Regs
Letter_to_Ruwe_re_status_update_1-14-10
C.O._Response_to_Stakeholdersproposal_1-22-10
Final_Findings_(Amended-Sledge_Dissent)_Fed_Reg_2-11-09
CTIA_Ringtone_Amicus_Brief_AT&T_FINAL_070109
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