Internet Radio
According to a report by Club Net Radio released in March 2007[dead link], under the advanced rates, annual fees for all station owners are projected to reach $2.3 billion by 2008. This figure is further than four times that for traditional radio broadcasters who, due to terms customary forth in the 1998 Digital Millennium Bogart Act, are exempt from the additional royalties imposed on digital broadcasting outlets, which compensate the performers and patent owners of recorded works. Both traditional radio and Internet/digital radio broadcasters are responsible for royalties collected by performance rights organizations (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) on behalf of the composers of recorded works.
On 26 April 2007, the Internet Radio Equality Act (HR 2060) was proposed to reverse the CRB's decision. This bill was alluring in the U.S