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Press Release Ι Information Ι FAQ's Ι Registration Form Ι SX Blog Sound Exchange Reporting and Public InteractiveOn May 28, 2009, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced its selection of Public Interactive to serve as the single collection point for reports which will be consolidated and sent to SoundExchange to ensure that performers and sound recording copyright owners are accurately paid for the use of their recordings. » Read the full press release here This reporting is part of an agreement reached earlier this year between CPB and SoundExhange which defines terms, conditions and reporting for internet performance royalties to artists and copyright owners by non-commercial educational public radio organizations through 2010. It covers approximately 450 public radio webcasters including CPB supported stations, NPR, NPR member stations, National Federation of Community Broadcasters members, American Public Media (APM), Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and Public Radio International (PRI).
Does this concern my station?Every public radio that webcasts real-time streams of its live broadcast, HD channels, or side-channels, must report the music it webcasts or streams, as well as how many people listened to each song (Music ATH). Every public radio station that wants to take advantage of the CPB negotiated agreement must comply with usage reporting requirements. If you registered your station for Internet Music Rights coverage with CPB before January 29, 2009, you must re-register. How do I register my station for Internet Music Rights Coverage?» Follow this link on the CPB website to register. I’ve registered on the CPB website. Now what?» Sign up with Public Interactive using this form. In order to get started, we’ll need to gather some information about you and verify that you’ve registered with CPB. The PI Sound Exchange Project Manager will contact you directly to ask for data samples. Public Radio stations use a variety of playlisting tools, streaming vendors, and reporting services. Public Interactive will be augmenting our existing tools, including Public Interactive Composer, to help make the reporting process as painless as possible for your station. Due to the variety of vendors (both commercial and home-grown) we will be working with stations individually to understand the systems you have in place and walk you through the reporting process. What about the national music programs I carry?Stations that carry national music programs will need to supply playlists and streaming usage data for those programs. Public Interactive will work with all the national music program producers to make sure national playlists can be appended to your local schedule. Stay tuned for more information of this feature. I remember hearing about an Historic Period. What’s that all about?The CPB agreement covers an historic period for which stations will need to produce any and all reports they can during that time period. Many stations do not save streaming logs going back that far, but Public Interactive has been asked to aggregate any historic streaming data for the historic period and deliver it to Sound Exchange. The historical reports cover the following time period:
I’m already a PI Client who uses Public Interactive Composer and Streaming Services, what do I need to do now?You’ll need to continue uploading accurate playlists into Composer, but going forward, once you’ve registered with CPB, Public Interactive will automatically generate and submit your Sound Exchange quarterly report your behalf. I’m not a Public Interactive Composer Client, what do I do now?If you use other tools for playlisting or streaming, you will need to upload both playlists and streaming logs to PI, so that we can calculate your quarterly Sound Exchange report. Be sure to fill out the form above so that we can contact you to receive sample data files. Will this be a full report of every piece of music that I play?Not at the beginning. We’re required to provide a two-week period within each quarter for all stations. What is happening in Congress with the broadcast performance royalties debate?Congress has began legislative efforts to end the long-standing exemption of traditional over-the-air broadcasters to air music without paying royalty fees to performing artists. NPR believes a royalty for public radio is unnecessary and that pending legislation must be amended to reflect the following unique aspects of our public service:
For more information NPR’s efforts to protect the needs of public radio, please contact Michael Riksen at 202.513.2741. |
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