Brownback and Wyden Bolster Support For Internet Radio Equality Act
U.S. Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), co-sponsors of the Internet Radio Equality Act, released a statement regarding the ongoing negotiations between SoundExchange and webcasters over royalty rates. The senators stated, “We sponsored the Internet Radio Equality Act because the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision to dramatically increase royalties and apply what we see as unfounded minimum rates threatens...
Patent Terrorists Lose Big In MP3 Case Against Microsoft
The US Senior District Court has ruled that Microsoft does not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 Billion dollars for technology used to encode and decode digital audio files in the Windows Media Player. The French concern claimed that the technology infringed on two of its patents. The ruling overturned a previous jury verdict in a lower court. Yesterday’s the judge issued a ruling “in favor of Microsoft and against Lucent,...
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