The saga surrounding recording industry-backed fee increases for Internet radio DJs has been raging for years, and the latest chapter surely won’t end this Sunday, when contentious new rules are scheduled to take effect. On one hand, Webcasters large and small, commercial and noncommercial, have been fighting a decision earlier this year by the U.S. …

Facing an outcry over imminent royalty fee increases for Internet radio operators, the music industry body that lobbied for the changes has attempted a peace offering. SoundExchange, the nonprofit group that collects the fees on behalf of hundreds of major and independent record companies, said on Tuesday that it would give “small” Webcasters the option of paying “below market” royalty …

WASHINGTON–A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. Intellectual property protection “can’t function in a country where the high-tech services become such that you can’t protect copyright,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The session centered on the landmark Supreme …