Sentence examples for rate courts from inspiring English sources

Typically, under terms that the record labels worked out with the streaming services (and somehow persuaded the federal rate courts to sign off on), when a song is streamed, sixty per cent of the income goes to the owners of the sound recording, thirty per cent goes to the service itself, and ten per cent goes to songwriters and publishers.

Rate courts are extraordinarily antiquated and increase both moral hazard and unfair bargaining position.

Given the high cost of rate courts, their rates are arguably more a product of who can afford to sustain the litigation rather than fairness for songwriters.

And how do we expect them to comprehend consent decrees, rate courts, and lack of transparency when it's daunting even for us?

An example of the tortured morass of rate courts is the current Pandora case: The rate court judge has stated that she may ask the U.S. Department of Justice for advice in determining whether Pandora has the right to force a songwriter to license her songs in a particular medium under ASCAP's otherwise voluntary collective licensing.

BMI, which like Ascap represents a huge portion of the music available in the United States, operates under its own consent decree, and is governed by a different federal rate court.

JW: It's been decided by the Justice Department in a roundabout way in rate court.

"New Boss" digital services--including Pandora--recently took restrictions on audits to an absurd level in a government rate court proceeding.

At young age, Rodriguez moved with his family from Puerto Rico to a city in Massachusetts plagued by crime and a high unemployment rate, court documents state.

Songwriters find themselves in a rate court proceeding with public companies that are willing to outspend them following a negotiation of dubious bona fides -- all to determine a market rate that the government prohibits the market from determining.

But if a PRO cannot make a deal with a well-funded licensee, that licensee (such as Pandora, most recently) can go to a "rate court", a U.S. District Court sitting in New York that conducts an expensive hearing to approximate a market rate.