Yeah the very concept is COMPLETELY bogus. As an idie musician I totally rely on webcasts for exposure, and WHO outside the 'pop'/'mtv'/'big name country' scene benefits? Hell, Id love to know exactly HOW MANY ARTISTS benefit?!
I CAN totally understand the concept of bandwidth/ fidelity limitations. But realoy nuthin more.
As a Canadian though, my question is this... How will these actions affect internet radio in greater N.America or indeed worldwide?
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From: "Ethan Clauset" <eclauset@webslingerZ.com>
To: "idm@hyperreal.org" <idm@hyperreal.org>
Cc: "adm226@nyu.edu" <adm226@nyu.edu>
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Subject: [idm] Re: Fuck the R.I.A.A, Save Internet Radio
Type: IPM.Note
Date: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:56 PM
actually I posted a bunch of information about it a month ago. the rate
is $0.0014 per song per listener for stations doing only webcasts; for
non-comm stations sending their off-air signal over the web the rate is
$0.0002 cents/song/listener - not entirely unreasonable as long as you
don't average more than, say, 20 listeners at a time (24 hrs/day). the
real threat that CARP presents is to internet-only broadcasters who have
to pay the top rate and a minimum of $500/year. this isn't "new
legislation" by the way; the DMCA was passed in 1996. the reporting
requirements are actually much more obnoxious than the proposed rates -
webcasters would have to provide an impossible amount of information about
each song and listener.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Ewillr/cb/sos/
http://www.saveinternetradio.org/
quoted 8 lines I'm a little surprised this hasn't come up on the list yet, but very
> I'm a little surprised this hasn't come up on the list yet, but very
> recently new legislation was passed that will effectively KILL internet
> radio. No, I'm not exagerating. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty
> Panel that was created after the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
> recently decided that for non-commercial radio stations doing webcasts,
> a $.02 royalty per song per listener needs to be paid. Additionally,
> these royalties need to be paid retroactively all the way back to
> 1998. Do the math. Internet Radio will die.
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