Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client.
Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement:
While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK supports video. [...]

Music industry group SoundExchange said Tuesday that small Internet radio broadcasters could pay royalty rates from 10-12% to stream traditionally-licensed music online through 2010.
Qualified Webcasters ‚Äî those earning $1.25 million or less in annual revenue ‚Äî have until Sept. 14 to accept SoundExchange’s offer. The agreement covers streaming recordings of SoundExchange members.
SoundExchange represents more than [...]

SoundExchange, the group that collects performance fees on behalf of hundreds of major and independent record companies, said Tuesday that it would give “small” Webcasters the option of paying “below market” royalty rates on the songs they play. Their offer would keep royalty rates essentially the same as they are under a 2002 law called [...]

On Friday, the United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasts, effective from 2006 to 2010.
The new rates force webcasters to pay for each traditionally copyrighted song streamed to each user, and increase over the next few years as follows:

2006: $0.0008 to stream one song to one listener
2007: $.0011
2008: $.0014
2009: $.0018
2010: $.0019

These [...]