CRB Sets 0.17 Cent Royalty Rate for Nonsubscription Webcasting Services, 0.22 Cent for Subcription Services
Noninteractive webcasters will be required to pay 0.17 cent per performance on nonsubscription services and 0.22 cent per performance for subscription services beginning Jan. 1, the Copyright Royalty Board said at our deadline Wednesday. The CRB released the initial details…
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of its 2016-2020 webcasting rate-setting ruling Wednesday but hadn’t released a full unredacted version of the ruling to parties in the rate-setting proceeding at our deadline. There had been few clear signs before the ruling about how the CRB would rule (see 1512110064). Noncommercial webcasters will be required to pay $500 annually for each station or channel for all transmissions totaling no more than 159,140 aggregate tuning hours (ATH) per month, the CRB said. All transmissions above 159,140 ATH per month will pay a 0.17 cent per-performance rate. Rates for commercial and noncommercial webcasters will be adjusted annually between 2017 and 2020 based on the Consumer Price Index, the CRB said.