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| Association of Internet Broadcasters? You'll find that many commercial radio broadcast stations, which the vast majority do streaming, pay in aggregate by contract for the music rights, thus the costs can be considerably lower. I would suggest that the Internet broadcasters join together and form a coalition and negotiate as a group.
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cum hoc ergo propter hoc |
| Good point. This happened in 2002. A special interest group calling themselves "Voice of Webcasters" negotiated directly with SoundExchange. That resulted in the Small Webcaster Settlement Act. Only problem -- the VOW was a temporary outfit and disbanded as soon as the dust settled.
However, several streaming media companies have seen what's at stake and are finally gearing up to form a new industry trade association to combat this injustice.
»www.smallwebcaster.org/ |
