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According to industry and congressional sources, with satellite radio services now becoming distribution services, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has presented legislation that would require satellite radio companies to compensate copyright holders in the music industry for downloads, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
The PERFORM Act - or the Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2006 - would require cable, satellite and internet music providers to pay market value for digital music performance and would require better music theft technology.
“Digital sales are finally replacing physical losses,” said RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol. “If someone gets a distribution right without paying for it, that blows a hole in the digital marketplace.” He added, “Competition should be based on the offering. Their license is for a performance, not a distribution.”
Executives in the record industry want so-called “parity” among various download platforms, arguing that XM Radio’s new free-download devices cheat the copyright holder.
Unlike XM, Sirius Satellite Radio has cut deals with record companies to compensate them for downloads on Sirius’s S-50 receiver, which lets customers record content.
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
