With Congress due to adjourn Friday, lawmakers worked late Thursday evening to resolve a couple of high profile digital-entertainment issues. [MORE]

Source: CNET

SoundExchange head Jon Simson is the last person on the planet we expected to hear talking about how great Pandora’s streaming radio service is. After all, his organization proposed the very same royalty rates enacted by the US Copyright Royalty Board that threaten to put Pandora out of business. [MORE]

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Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the United States. [MORE]

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We’ve been discussing the plight of Internet radio for some time, as the Copyright Royalty Board imposed royalties that industry observers predicted would prove lethal to the nascent industry. [MORE]

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As internet radio stations fight to get a reduction in Copyright Royalty Board-levied royalties, there’s a move to tie it to the effort to win a performance royalty from over-the-air radio. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) says “I don’t know how we ever get to a system of rate parity by leaving the 800-pound gorilla out of the room.” So far NAB lobbying has secured the pledge of 222 House members and 14 Senators to oppose what the NAB says amounts to a tax.

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Thirteen record labels have asked a judge to issue a decision in a 2-year-old case against peer-to-peer software company Lime Wire for allegedly inducing copyright violations of music files. [MORE]

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Ageing rock stars and session musicians will keep receiving royalties for their old recordings for the rest of their lives under a European Union plan. [MORE]