Hmm…
The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel said AM and FM radio stations should pay 0.07 cent per song, with Internet-only Webcasters paying 0.14 cent per song. The rates, retroactive to 1998, also charge a 9 percent “ephemeral license fee.”
Ephemeral license fee. WTF is that?!? Of course, one might dream that perhaps someone might actually be successful in overturning the tide and one day we’ll laugh about all of this, but… I doubt it.
Interesting posts on mefi, including some from IPLawyer, someone involved with the litigation.
Here’s a timeline of a bizarro alternate-earth: artists start banding together after realizing how they’re constantly getting screwed, music monopolies get slapped around for being complete morons,
people realize what a sham current ip laws are, and laws actually change, hell freezes over.