A number of UK residents have received jail time for an scam that involved using stolen credit cards to buy their own music on iTunes and Amazon and then taking the royalties from those sales. More...
Over the past few weeks Microsoft has been inking deals with several manufactures over royalties when producing Android handsets. And now Microsoft is going after Samsung, and they are asking for $15 per handset sold... More...
YouTube has secured an agreement with the UK societies that collect royalties for 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers to legitimise the use of recorded music on Google's popular video-sharing website. The agreement to license 10m... More...
Yesterday, a music industry group said small Internet radio broadcasters could pay discounted royalty rates for streaming music online through 2010, a move that could keep the struggling businesses alive. Webcasters who earn $1.25 million... More...
The longstanding debate between webcasters and the RIAA really hasn't been a hot topic since 2002-2003, when the RIAA pushed hard for some significant royalties that threatened to put smaller operations out of business. Smaller... More...
Nintendo on Thursday said it has trimmed the royalty rates it charges outside game developers, in an effort beef up the roster of hit titles available on its flagging GameCube console. Japan's Nintendo,... More...