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Great site. Good info.
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[[category:timeline]][[category:events]][[category:United States issues]]On March 2, 2007, the {{USA}} government, through the [[Copyright Royalty Board]] (CRB), announced a new set of regulations for [[internet radio]], including higher rates that are retroactive to the previous year (2006) and which escalate steeply (more than doubling) up through 2010. There is also a $500 minimum fee per channel per year
 
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Given the rates currently paid for advertising on webcasts and the low demand for advertising airtime, these new rates make webcasting essentially commercially non-viable.
 
  
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The $500 annual minimum is especially prohibitive for sites (such as [[Live365]]) offering subscribers the ability to run their own stations: although some of the stations make money, the majority of them are non-commercial and extremely low traffic, with listener-counts in the single or double digits.
 
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Furthermore, the new regulations require webcasters to pay these rates ''even if they only broadcast content whose license allows free broadcasting''. This is problematic in a number of ways.
 
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For one, it is not clear where the dividing line, if any, is between a "webcaster" and an artist 'casting their own material. Even if the regulations still permit individuals to 'cast their own material without paying royalties, there are some entirely legitimate in-between situations which now might (or might not) trigger a requirement to pay tithes to the record industry without receiving any significant value in kind:
 
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* an artist who streams their own original music but whose copyrights reside with a publishing company (which the artist may or may not own in full) rather than with the artist personally
 
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* an individual who streams original music of bands who are her/his personal friends, with the bands' permission
 
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* a record label (such as Magnatune) which streams the original music of their artists, with the artists' permission
 
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* a web service site (such as [[htyp:Jamendo|Jamendo]]) which provides a service allowing artist-clients to stream their own music, and which may publish streams of music from multiple artist-clients with the artists' permission
 
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These new regulations seem very much like another power-grab by the [[music industry]].
 
 
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===News===
 
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* '''2007-07-15'''
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** [http://www.di.fm/blog/read/2007/07/july-15th-heres-royalty-situation.html  July 15th - Here's the Royalty Situation Update]
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** [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070715-net-radio-compromise-hinged-on-drm-adoption.html Net radio "compromise" hinged on DRM adoption]
 
* '''2007-05-03''' [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-internet-radio-royalty-hike-delayed-last-chance-to-petition-congress.html Internet radio royalty hike delayed; last chance to petition Congress]: the start date for the new rates has been postponed to July 15, 2007
 
* '''2007-05-03''' [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-internet-radio-royalty-hike-delayed-last-chance-to-petition-congress.html Internet radio royalty hike delayed; last chance to petition Congress]: the start date for the new rates has been postponed to July 15, 2007
 
** Discussion: [http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1330212 slashdot]
 
** Discussion: [http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1330212 slashdot]

Latest revision as of 18:10, 22 July 2009

Great site. Good info.

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Projects & Statements

  • SaveTheStreams.org: "Internet radio may be driven out of business within weeks by a Copyright Royalty Board decision that gives record companies a royalty rate that exceeds 100% of most webcasters' total revenues..."
  • Save Internet Radio at Live365, possibly the largest webcasting company, with thousands of subscriber-operated streams

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