Tom Spring writes:
On Thursday a bill that could save Internet radio was submitted to Congress. The bill, Internet Radio Equality Act, would stop a new royalty scheme that Internet broadcasters say will shut them down because it will cost them too much money. ΒΆ U.S. Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) filed the legislation Thursday. ...
... The Inslee-Manzullo Internet Radio Equality Act vacates the CRB's March 2 decision and proposes Net radio stations continue paying a percentage (7.5) of revenues through 2010. Alternatively, the bill would allow Net broadcaster to choose to pay 33 cents per hour of sound recordings transmitted to a single user. ...
Link: PC World. Thanks to Mari Silbey at ZatzNotFunny! for the tip.
Reclaim the Media says that Inslee has eight co-sponsors.
Update:
Jeremy Egner has a good article on this in Current. --Dennis
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