pokesph
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Re: Deal will make scofflaws pay up however
said by RadioDoc  :Most of those "scofflaws" (nice bias there, Tom) are already registered and are paying royalties to both the composers and the performers via Shoutcast, Live365, 1.fm and other consolidators and relays. Only the puniest hobby sites running off their own servers have "avoided paying". Those generally have zero revenues so there is no actual loss to anyone. Also, this new "offer" (10%-13%) is still 50% higher than what satellite radio operators pay (7.5%), and they are an order of magnitude bigger than even the biggest net broadcaster, revenue-wise. Why do you support that discrepancy? So as a small-time, non-commercial (read hobby) broadcaster with no income derived from the broadcasts, will we have to pay anything?
10% of 0 = 0 (last time I checked anyway)
How would this affect us when we play foreign artists? Unlicensed music? Our own recordings?
Also why does sat radio get such a good deal? They CHARGE for their service.. most inet broadcasters do not.
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| IMO, the only thing the RIAA ought to have a legal right
to charge for is their own affiliates' music. Anything
else is pure greed and independent webcasters should fight
them tooth and nail over it (that is, if they have the
money to stand up to the RIAA's lawyers).
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RadioDoc
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They want you to pay $500 a year, minimum, regardless of any income. You have to account for every song played to every slot every minute. If you can prove that you played no SoundExchange-covered music then you are off the hook. However, if you played one covered work to just one listener (including yourself) any time during the year, you just put yourself on the hook for that $500.
Satellite radio hired better whores, I guess.
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jarthur31
join:2006-04-14
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Because common sense seems to have disappeared from the American psyche since the 50's. |
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