flya150 Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 America's fledgling Internet radio industry could be effectively killed on May 21st if the Librarian of Congress (1) accepts the recommendations of its recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel ("CARP") concerning Internet radio royalty rates and (2) sets impossibly-complex recordkeeping requirements. Congress passed a law in October, 1998, called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which established that webcasters must pay royalties to record labels for the music they play. However, the CARP's recommended royalty rates are currently more than 200% of most Webcasters' gross revenues! If Copyright Office accepts the CARP's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio, as the retroactively-owed fees would bankrupt all but the very largest Internet-only webcasters (and would probably trigger the shutdown of most broadcast stations' Web simulcasts, including almost all the educational and community stations ). Please Help Save Internet Radio. Go to... www.saveinternetradio.org to see what you can do. Thank you for you help, flya152 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorue Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 Originally posted by flya150 America's fledgling Internet radio industry could be effectively killed on May 21st if the Librarian of Congress (1) accepts the recommendations of its recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel ("CARP") concerning Internet radio royalty rates and (2) sets impossibly-complex recordkeeping requirements. Congress passed a law in October, 1998, called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which established that webcasters must pay royalties to record labels for the music they play. However, the CARP's recommended royalty rates are currently more than 200% of most Webcasters' gross revenues! If Copyright Office accepts the CARP's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio, as the retroactively-owed fees would bankrupt all but the very largest Internet-only webcasters (and would probably trigger the shutdown of most broadcast stations' Web simulcasts, including almost all the educational and community stations ). Please Help Save Internet Radio. Go to... www.saveinternetradio.org to see what you can do. Thank you for you help, flya152 if they do that, they might as well shut down all radio stations.. its the same thing = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dARKSTAr Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 Originally posted by flya150 America's fledgling Internet radio industry could be effectively killed on May 21st if the Librarian of Congress (1) accepts the recommendations of its recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel ("CARP") concerning Internet radio royalty rates and (2) sets impossibly-complex recordkeeping requirements. Congress passed a law in October, 1998, called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which established that webcasters must pay royalties to record labels for the music they play. However, the CARP's recommended royalty rates are currently more than 200% of most Webcasters' gross revenues! If Copyright Office accepts the CARP's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio, as the retroactively-owed fees would bankrupt all but the very largest Internet-only webcasters (and would probably trigger the shutdown of most broadcast stations' Web simulcasts, including almost all the educational and community stations ). Please Help Save Internet Radio. Go to... www.saveinternetradio.org to see what you can do. Thank you for you help, flya152 Not to be a stick in the mud, however why is it that your signature at the end of the post (flya152) is different than your name (flya150)?? Hmm? If you want Internet Radio to be saved, please tell us what it means to you instead of posting some prepackaged news clip of the facts. Now, i actually believe in what this thread is about. I'd like to save Internet Radio, but Spam is Spam even if it's stuff you agree with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flya150 Posted May 12, 2002 Author Share Posted May 12, 2002 Just a goof on my part. Sorry for the confussion. flya150 is my username here on Neowin. flya152 is my username on other sites. Sometimes I get them mixed up. 150 and 152 is a cessna aircraft. Hope this clears that up for you. :) But please help with this important issue regarding Internet radio. Once again thanks, flya150 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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