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July 12, 2005

Online music licensing gets a hearing

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Posted by Matt May

FMQB reports that this week, online music licensing will be a topic of discussion in a US Senate subcommittee on copyright. Subscription services and blanket licensing mechanisms will be up for debate. The subscription sites are asking for a blanket license because of the complexity of seeking rights from all of the content owners, while the owners themselves appear concerned that they can't capitalize to the greatest extent possible on their hits.

Naturally, podcasters have a dog in this race, though I'm not confident that we will be represented in any sense in the debate. Some sense will need to be made of how to license music distributed in podcast form. Clearly, the volume of material being made available and its relatively short lifespan on the devices of downloaders should add up to a lot less than the rates charged for duplication, which can be north of a dollar per track per download. Will content owners and performing rights organizations continue to ignore a content marketing and revenue stream that's begging to do business with it, or will podcasts be added to an expanded definition of streaming, for the purposes of licensing? Now may be the time to call your senator.

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