"Under new rules set up by the federal government, everyone from the home hobbyist to an online media giant such as Yahoo! owes a tax of sorts -- the "performance royalty." This is a user fee of .0007 cents per listener per song,"
"The first installment is due Sunday. And payments are retroactive. They include obligations that extend back four years, to the date when Congress passed one of several laws regulating the digital transmission of music. Add it up, and Webcasters large and small must account and pay for every copyrighted song they have streamed on their Web server, and every listener, since October of 1998."
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