Cablevision Network DVR Ruling Has Web Radio Impact

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The Copyright Office has extended the time period for comments in a rulemaking about Internet radio royalty fees after a federal appeals court ruling backed Cablevision's right to deploy a network-based digital video recording system. The agency, part of the Library of Congress, ruled in July that music publishers could collect royalties for the transmission of sound recordings over the Internet. Comments on that ruling were supposed to be submitted by Aug. 15, with reply comments due by Sept. 2. Royalty payments could have a big impact on free Internet music services such as Pandora or Last.fm. But the ruling in the Cablevision case - which reversed an earlier ruling by a federal court that was cited by the Copyright Office in its notice of proposed rulemaking on July 16 - prompted commenters to request more time. So the Copyright Office has pushed the comment period back to Aug. 28 and the reply date to Sept. 15.


Cablevision Network DVR Ruling Has Web Radio Impact