http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog Leadpile - The World's Largest Lead Marketplace / Lead Exchange - Where Lead Buyers and Sellers Meet! Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog/2009/08/23/yahoo-wins-recent-court-case-involving-internet-radio/ http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog/2009/08/23/yahoo-wins-recent-court-case-involving-internet-radio/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:29:39 +0000 Mari Woods Holt http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog/?p=17664 Yahoo has come out ahead in a recent court case involving it’s Launch Media division and major record labels. These record labels wanted to be able to mandate a “status” of the media division (Launchcast Webcasting Service) as an “interactive service”. This title would have then made it a requirement for Launchcast to pay higher fees to broadcast it’s music. Instead the court ruled that the webcasting service would be treated as that, a web service, and only be required to pay some small royalty fees. This is great news for Yahoo who could have had to pay a lot more money to run their internet radio service.
This court case, and others involving major record labels, has really put a damper on the record label’s ability to earn revenue from their music being played. This opens up more conversations in the fact that how can record labels continue to earn revenue? Are we potentially looking at a whole new outlook on record labels and what they do to create music? What about the idea of them being run by internet companies? Distribution of CDs has really dropped off in recent years, and court cases like this one will continue to add fuel to this uphill battle the record labels and their artists are going through.

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