krezrock
1st May 2002, 06:03 PM
http://www.kurthanson.com/
http://saveinternetradio.org/
if the carp recommendation passes on may 21st wrongsauce webcast will probably dissappear.
not to mention others as well.....
At issue is the rate of the royalty for which radio on the Internet would be liable to pay to use copyrighted music. A government appointed arbitration panel in February announced that Internet radio webcasters would be compelled to pay 0.14? for every listener that hears every song -- potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars per year! (Broadcasters who simulcast their programming on the Internet would be charged at a rate half of that.) Both forms of streaming would also carry an additional 9% charge for "ephemeral" copies of recordings.
Possibly most crippling of all is the fact that 'Net radio operators would be retroactively liable for royalties dating to October of 1998.
The resulting royalty charges would almost certainly bankrupt nearly all independent webcasters, and force broadcasters to abandon their Internet streams.
On the other side of the issue are the five major record labels and their industry organization, the Recording Industry Association of America. They claim the royalties are justified compensation for recording artists and copyright owners whose property would be used to build profitable businesses by webcasters.
http://saveinternetradio.org/
if the carp recommendation passes on may 21st wrongsauce webcast will probably dissappear.
not to mention others as well.....
At issue is the rate of the royalty for which radio on the Internet would be liable to pay to use copyrighted music. A government appointed arbitration panel in February announced that Internet radio webcasters would be compelled to pay 0.14? for every listener that hears every song -- potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars per year! (Broadcasters who simulcast their programming on the Internet would be charged at a rate half of that.) Both forms of streaming would also carry an additional 9% charge for "ephemeral" copies of recordings.
Possibly most crippling of all is the fact that 'Net radio operators would be retroactively liable for royalties dating to October of 1998.
The resulting royalty charges would almost certainly bankrupt nearly all independent webcasters, and force broadcasters to abandon their Internet streams.
On the other side of the issue are the five major record labels and their industry organization, the Recording Industry Association of America. They claim the royalties are justified compensation for recording artists and copyright owners whose property would be used to build profitable businesses by webcasters.