CRB's 2016-2020 Webcasting Rate-setting Ruling Coming Wednesday

The Copyright Royalty Board will issue its ruling on the webcasting rate-setting proceeding Wednesday, the Copyright Office said Monday. The ruling, which will decide the statutory royalty rates that Pandora and other noninteractive online radio services will pay between 2016 and 2020, has been difficult for stakeholders to predict given the wide range of proposed rates and few clear signs from stakeholders’ interactions with the CRB (see 1512110064). The CRB will post the royalty rates online Wednesday but will initially send its full written determination only to parties that participated in the proceeding and Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante pending determination of what information the CRB will redact for public release, the CO said. The rates set will take effect Jan. 1.