The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations reached an agreement Tuesday to head off a potentially crippling increase in copyright royalty rates. The deal is the product of two years of negotiations between webcasters and copyright holders. In March ...

A group that collects royalties for music artists and recording companies has agreed to reduce rates for thousands of commercial radio stations that also play songs over the Internet. Internet radio station operators had complained that rates originally set by the federal Copyright Royalty Board in 2007 could ...

A panel of US judges has decided to freeze the amount of royalties paid to songwriters for tracks downloaded from the internet – halting Apple's threat to close down its iTunes music store. Although the decision is not due to be made public until Monday, the Guardian understands that the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington has approved a ...

The federal Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday left the royalty that songwriters receive on sales of CDs and digital downloads at 9.1 cents per song for the next five years. Both songwriters and music sellers applauded the ruling — but for different reasons. Apple Inc., which had threatened to shutter ...