The decision to increase fees was made by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) which reviewed an earlier decision to increase royalty fees collected from web broadcasters.

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For example, the amount of royalties paid by big stations should be negotiated, with any impasse resolved by the Copyright Royalty Board, a group of three judges set up to handle royalties involving Web broadcasting.

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Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.

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