[ale] [OT] congress vote history

[Dow Hurst]

>From my understanding, each broadcaster would have to have an agreement with

each artist or artist/label denoting the fee structure for the right to play.
 This creates the problem of hundreds of broadcasters needing direct agreements
with each artist or artist/label. Â I remember listening to the plea from
one internet radio station asking for any and all artists who wanted or currently
had their music being played on that station to contact the station's management
and work up a deal directly so the RIAA could be bypassed. Â A grassroots
movement of artists working directly with the internet stations could avoid
the RIAA. Â This is presupposing that the artists haven't sold out and got
a "deal" with a major label who is part of the RIAA. Â I have no idea how
many stations have gotten agreements such as this with any private artists
or labels. Â My wife and I like mountain gospel which is on few stations on
the Internet (maybe none now in the US). Â But, there is a chance those artists
could work with a station since they are on small labels or are privately
distributed anyway. Â If you wanted to use the KPIG software setup and play
only music you could directly license then you could slowly built a repertoire
of music for broadcast. Â The major problem is that huge libraries of old
music copyrights have been accumulated by large corporations who are collecting
royalties for all broadcasts and printing of the music. Â I wonder who owns
the copyrights to all the music by Elvis or the Beatles? Â I know Sony owns
a large library from a show on VH-1 or E I saw. Â Can you imagine being a
professional musician with lots of music that you wanted to play over the
Internet on your new Internet radio station that is running off your free
software suite on your Linux box out of your home, but because you had sold
the copyright thru your "major label deal" with Sony or such, you would have
to pay them the royalties for your Internet broadcast? Â That would bite big
time! Â Paul McCartney would have to write a new song and secure the copyright
to himself, before he could put it on the air without paying someone else.
Dow


Andrew Grimmke wrote:
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  On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Irv Mullins wrote:

  
  
    Anyway, what's to stop internet radio from playing
music by *real* artists,
i.e. those who are not under contract to the music
cartel?

Irv

    
  
  
While you make a good point, some of my favorite
stations (i.e. KPIG, audiocandy.com, grrlradio) are off
the air because of this crap.  There are still some
good stations out there, but it looks pretty bleak,
especially after Sunday, when the fees come due.

Regarding, webcasters playing independent labels and
unsigned artists, to my knowledge this question is
still not resolved.  I have not seen anything official
which states that independent labels are exempt.  And
how can broadcasters know if a particular label is
interested in recieving the royalty?  Unfortunately, it
appears that an annual fee will still apply, as well as
the strict reporting requirements, so webcasters can
proove their innocence.

If you have any contrasting information, please let me
know, as I am trying to stay current on this issue.  


Andrew Grimmke
Marietta, Georgia

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