June 20, 2003

Radio Stations and Record Companies Agree on Web Fees

By DAN CARNEVALE

College radio stations have reached an agreement with the recording industry to reduce the fees stations must pay when they play music online.

The agreement supplants a controversial fee structure announced last year by James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress, who oversees the fees under the terms of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The deal also releases college stations from a requirement that they keep detailed digital records of all music that they Webcast, or play

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