On Wednesday, a U.S. district court ruled that AOL, Yahoo, and RealNetworks must pay a percentage of their revenues derived from music-oriented services to the American Society of Composers, Artists, and Publishers (ASCAP). However, the three companies were unable to agree on the rates owed the songwriters, and so a court stepped in and now the payments owed by the three companies may equal $100 million.
This is now more than a decade-long issue, with hearings having first taken place in October and November 1997. During the hearings, the court reviewed 203 exhibits and heard from nearly a dozen witnesses. As per a 2001 ruling, the district court was brought in to decide what rates the websites should actually pay.
The fees at issue here are in addition to what each company already pays record labels for music, and video providers for videos.
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This is great news for the music industry. not necessarily good news for musicians. It is one more case where the little guy gets the short end of the stick
it is not good news for musicians and US.. somebody will have to pay for that and i bet it will be the common little man..