they're going to court later this month with the music industry people, who are going to try the same **** they did to naspter.
it was in a tech mail I got, I deleted it by mistake this morn.
limewire's next to it said. and they are going after the internet sataions here in the US too. so places like Digital Radio and Trance Gate radio will have to pay for streaming the music/sets.
just
read this and here is a quote from DI radio:
And the royalty rate for that drum roll is...
Well nothing is simple. Turns out the Copyright Panel announced a whole slew of rates depending on whether a station delivers Internet-only streams, simulcasts AM or FM broadcasts, or is a non commercial (PBS type) entity. Read the Reuters news article to get an overall summary. For the gory legal details, visit the Copyright Office Website.
The rates are still preliminary, and must go through a 60-day public comment period before being approved in May. That’s when the royalty bills come due. Keep in mind that record labels are worldwide now, in many cases EU-based. The labels and broadcasters have chosen to duke it out at the US Copyright Office, but expect the final decision to set an international standard.
Thoughts? The proposed rates are set at flat fees per song per listener, and do not include any percent of revenue option that the labels (RIAA) themselves proposed. Even more interesting is the 50% break that AM and FM simulcasts get. Hmm. Does it strike you that the big-money traditional broadcasters have been hard at work lobbying on this one?
Posted: 5:44 AM by Entranced
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I think the artical about mourphs was from c-net.
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