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CRB Finalizes Rule Reinstating Eligibility for Streaming Reporting Requirements Relief

The Copyright Royalty Board published a final rule in Tuesday's Federal Register reinstating rules that ease the requirements for noncommercial broadcasters and commercial broadcasters to report streamed sound recordings to SoundExchange for royalty purposes when either pays no more than…

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the $500 minimum annual royalty. The CRB proposed the technical amendment in August to reinstate the previously allowed reporting relief requirements, which were inadvertently rescinded in a June technical amendment (see 1608100020). The CRB said it received comments from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System and a joint filing from the National Association of Broadcasters and the National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee that didn't oppose the relief reinstatement amendment.