Radio Fight Rolling Over To 2010
From this morning's Earlybird:
• "The pitched battle over whether radio broadcasters should compensate performers for airing their recordings is set to extend well into 2010, government and industry sources said, because congressionally brokered negotiations failed to result in a breakthrough," CongressDailyPM (subscription) reports. "At issue is an exemption in copyright law that shelters radio stations from paying royalties to artists for playing their songs on AM and FM radio stations."
• "Open government? There's an app for that. Or so the Obama administration proposes, rolling out a 'transparency, participation and collaboration' directive for all federal departments and agencies at 11 a.m. ET today," USA Today reports. "'We are fundamentally committed to changing the way government works,' says Aneesh Chopra, the federal government's chief technology officer."
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