iTunes Safe: CRB Denies Request to Raise Royalty Rates. iTunes shut down CRB Royalties. The Copyright Royalty Board yesterday denied the National Music Publishers’ Association’s request for an increase in royalty rates for music sold online.. The Copyright...

a recent interview with the Washington Post, Tim Westergren, the founder of the online radio station, says royalties could approach 70% of revenues and that the company is approaching its "last stand". Last year, the Copyright Royalty Board ruled that song...

Apple Threatens to Shut Down iTunes. Apple iTunes Royalties music. This Thursday, an upcoming ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board will decide the fate of iTunes as artists demand greater royalties.. This Thursday, a ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board...

Publishers’ Association, and the Digital Media Association. The Copyright Royalty Judges will make a final ruling on October 2. If ruled in favor of the agreement, the new mechanical royalty would finally settle a financial dispute between the music industry...

owners' copyrights, as they are not true performances.According to Ars Technica, ASCAP sued certain carriers earlier this year, forcing them to pay royalties every time a customer's ringtone is played. However the judge dismissed that idea in her ruling, explaining...

be removed from Facebook on the grounds that the Agarwalla brothers had not gotten permission to use what’s legally Hasbro’s intellectual property. In other words, copyright infringement. When word got around about Hasbro’s request, fans started a Save...

deal, Microsoft bought a CP/M clone called 86-DOS for $50,000 from Seattle Computer Products and re-branded it to PC-DOS. The software was sold to IBM for a one-time fee of $80,000. However, Microsoft retained the copyright. Cloning IBM: Milking PC clone-makers...

for those accused," says Fred von Lohmann, senior staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for Internet rights. "In a world where hundreds of thousands, or millions, of copyright infringement allegations are automatically...

that don’t apply well to the use of that product," Ward explained. The edited version of the Chrome EULA now reads as, "You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services." Google...

past three months, Chrome has been in and out of the news. Most notably, of course, in the weeks after its release when Google had to reword its End User Licensing Agreement after it raised a few concerns about copyrights. The wording of section 11 of the Chrome...