Royalty agreement reached for music downloads in UK

arstechnica.com — Record companies and songwriters in the United Kingdom have reached an agreement over royalties covering online digital music sales, including digital music sales and mobile phone ringtones. Songwriters will receive 8 percent for each song downloaded. They had sought 12 percent, and music companies wanted to give them 6.5 percent. Sep 28, 2006 View in Crawl 4