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Digital Media Association Applauds Introduction Of Webcaster Settlement Act Of 2009
Jonathan Potter, Executive Director of the Digital Media Association (DiMA), issued the following statement in response to the introduction of Webcaster Settlement Act. "On behalf of commercial webcasters, both large and small, I would like to personally thank Chairman Conyers, Representatives Inslee, Lofgren and Boucher, and Senator Wyden, for introducing the Webcaster Settlement Act 2009 (H.R. 2344). The Act will provide commercial webcasters with an additional opportunity to obtain financial relief from the Copyright Royalty Board's 2007 Internet radio royalty decision.
For several years, and with a renewed intensity since the Copyright Royalty Board 2007 royalty decision, DiMA has sought to change the law so that Internet radio royalties are determined using the same fairness-based balancing test that has always been the standard for setting cable and satellite radio royalties. We are hopeful that the House Judiciary Committee will address this important radio parity issue when it considers the Performance Rights Act this week, and that a revised standard will in the future be the basis of more reasonable CRB royalty decisions so that future Webcaster Settlement Acts will not be necessary."
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