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Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Southwest VA Gas Wells
TriCities Every month, a bank in Roanoke receives checks for thousands of dollars belonging to people who might never cash them. The checks are royalty payments for people whose mineral…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Thou Shalt Not Steal Gas
TriCities On today’s front page, we launched an ambitious and complex eight-day series that involves millions of dollars and affects thousands of Southwest Virginia property owners. Between unmasking other forms…
CommLawBlog
Noncommercial Webcasting Royalties: The Nitty Gritty
Last week we reported that SoundExchange had reached a couple of agreements affecting non-CPB noncommercial webcasters. The terms of those agreements have now been published in the Federal Register. Read…
CommLawBlog
Responding To A False Alarm?
By Harry Cole
A new front has been opened in the on-going struggle over the Performance Rights Act (PRA). MusicFIRST Coalition has tried to lure the FCC into the fray. And the FCC…
CommLawBlog
Court Affirms Most Webcasting Royalty Rules
The D.C. Circuit has (with one minor exception) affirmed the 2007 webcasting royalty decision of the Copyright Royalty Judges, AFTER the private parties affected by the royalty decision had worked…
Energy & Environmental Law Blog
ND Royalty Opinion
By Greg Russell
The North Dakota Supreme Court held this week that deductions for natural gas processing of sour gas made by Petro-Hunt, LLC, were properly deducted from royalty payments in Bice v.…
Broadcast Law Blog
Court Upholds Copyright Royalty Board Decision on Satellite Radio Royalties, But Questions Board’s Constitutionality
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today issued a decision basically upholding the royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board due under Section 114 of…
Broadcast Law Blog
Pureplay Webcasters and SoundExchange Enter Into Deal Under Webcaster Settlement Act to Offer Internet Radio Royalty Rate Alternative for 2006-2015
A settlement under the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 was signed today by SoundExchange and a group of webcasters that I represented in the Copyright Royalty Board proceeding to determine…
CAFA Law Blog
Freebird Flies to Sweet Home Kansas State Court
Freebird, Inc. v. Cimarex Energy Co., No. 08-1190, 2008 WL 5575067 (D. Kan. Sep. 2, 2008). Your name does not have to be Van Zant, Collins, Gaines or Rossington to appreciate…
Broadcast Law Blog
SoundExchange “Settlement” With Microcasters – A Royalty Option for the Very Small Webcaster
With all the recent discussion of the NAB-SoundExchange settlement (see our post here) and the recent Court of Appeals argument on Copyright Royalty Board decision on Internet Radio royalties, we have…