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==Overview==
 
==Overview==
[[category:United States issues]][[Internet radio]] refers to the practice of broadcasting radio-like content over the [[Internet]] (more technically: making streaming audio content available on the Internet for multiple listeners who need not "log in" or otherwise identify themselves). The practice of broadcasting content over the [[Internet]] is referred to as webcasting, or just 'casting. (The term "netcasting" is usually used in reference to broadcasting within a private (e.g. corporate) computer network.)
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[[Internet radio]] refers to the practice of broadcasting radio-like content over the [[Internet]] (more technically: making streaming audio content available on the Internet for multiple listeners who need not "log in" or otherwise identify themselves). The practice of broadcasting content over the [[Internet]] is referred to as webcasting, or just 'casting. (The term "netcasting" is usually used in reference to broadcasting within a private (e.g. corporate) computer network.)
  
 
It is a minor issue in general because of disagreements over how to license content for net 'casting; these were more or less resolved by fiat when the RIAA posted a set of [http://www.riaa.com/issues/licensing/webcasting_faq.asp rules and rates for webcasting]; although not everyone was happy with the rules, webcasters generally complied and the issue went on the back burner.
 
It is a minor issue in general because of disagreements over how to license content for net 'casting; these were more or less resolved by fiat when the RIAA posted a set of [http://www.riaa.com/issues/licensing/webcasting_faq.asp rules and rates for webcasting]; although not everyone was happy with the rules, webcasters generally complied and the issue went on the back burner.
===2007-03-02 New US Rules===
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==Issues==
On March 2, 2007, however, the {{USA}} government, through the [[Copyright Royalty Board]] (CRB), announced a new set of higher rates that are retroactive to the previous year (2006) and which escalate steeply (more than doubling) up through 2010.
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These issues abruptly came to a head once more, however, with the 2007 announcement of [[2007-03-02 US webcasting rules|new webcasting rules and rates]] in the {{USA}} which severely threaten both the existence of internet radio as an independent medium and the ability of many independent artists to be heard at all, much less earn a living with their music.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
Furthermore, the new regulations require webcasters to pay these rates ''even if they only broadcast content whose license allows free broadcasting''.
 
===Links===
 
* '''2007-03-12''' [http://www.di.fm/blog/read/2007/03/new-music-royalty-rates-are-about-to.html  New Music Royalty Rates May Shut Down Internet Radio]
 
* [http://www.savethestreams.org/ 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..."
 
** [http://www.savethestreams.org/serendipity/pages/faq.html FAQ]
 

Latest revision as of 12:48, 8 August 2008

Overview

Internet radio refers to the practice of broadcasting radio-like content over the Internet (more technically: making streaming audio content available on the Internet for multiple listeners who need not "log in" or otherwise identify themselves). The practice of broadcasting content over the Internet is referred to as webcasting, or just 'casting. (The term "netcasting" is usually used in reference to broadcasting within a private (e.g. corporate) computer network.)

It is a minor issue in general because of disagreements over how to license content for net 'casting; these were more or less resolved by fiat when the RIAA posted a set of rules and rates for webcasting; although not everyone was happy with the rules, webcasters generally complied and the issue went on the back burner.

Issues

These issues abruptly came to a head once more, however, with the 2007 announcement of new webcasting rules and rates in the United States which severely threaten both the existence of internet radio as an independent medium and the ability of many independent artists to be heard at all, much less earn a living with their music.