Copyright Judges Set Streaming Audio Royalty Rates for 2021-25
The royalty rates for sound recordings via streaming commercial subscription services is .0026 cent per performance for 2021, while for commercial nonsubscription services it's .0021 cents per performance, the copyright royalty judges said in a final determination Monday. Those rates…
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for 2022-2025 will be adjusted using the change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, they said. The rate for noncommercial webcasters is $1,000 annually for each station or channel for all webcast transmissions totaling not more than 159,140 aggregate tuning hours (ATH) in a month, for each year in the rate term. If a noncommercial webcaster makes total transmissions in excess of 159,140 ATH in any month on any individual channel or station, the fees for the transmissions it makes on that channel or station in excess of 159,140 ATH will be .0021 cent per performance in 2021. Those rates also will be adjusted going through 2025 using the index, they said.