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In a public hearing before the copyright board, XM/SIRIUS selected CONSOR’s valuation and licensing team to establish appropriate copyright royalty rates for non-music programming. The three person panel elected to adopt CONSOR’s valuation recommendations as the basis for ongoing royalties—thus saving XM/SIRIUS billions of dollars in royalties over the next decade. During the assignment, CONSOR […]

The Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. U.S. Plywood Corp. case in 1970 established a list of 15 factors to be considered when calculating royalty rates, resulting in the Georgia-Pacific factors. Now those untouchable rules have collapsed, after Middle District of Florida Judge Hernandez Covington allowed the plaintiff’s damages expert, CONSOR Chairman Weston Anson to offer royalty rate […]