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The New York Times Internet Radio Criticizes Rate on Royalties
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"Under the ruling, radio companies will pay the recording industry 0.07 cent each time they play a song over the Internet. Webcasters, who have been slow to find advertisers despite drawing large audiences, had hoped that the rate would be set at a percentage of revenue, a move that they argued would allow them time to build a new outlet for music.

"For a lot of independent Webcasting companies, this is going to take them out," said John Jeffrey, executive vice president of Live 365, a network of 47,000 stations. "There's going to be less music put out on the Web, and that's not good for artists or anyone else.""

USA Today Neither side happy with Net radio royalty rates
"Webcasters like Live365, a network of about 30,000 radio stations created by individual Internet users, wanted a rate based on a percentage of revenue to pay performers and record labels. Webcasters, like over-the-air radio stations, already use such an arrangement to pay songwriters and composers.

But the Copyright Office said that because many webcasters have such small revenues, there would be little compensation for those who own the copyrights to songs."

redux [04.03.02]
Salon The battle over Web radio continues
"Now to your propaganda about webcaster finances. First, you point out that most webcasters are either out of business or on shoestring budgets. For those out of business, I assume you'd agree that royalties had nothing to do with it because they'd never paid a dime (e.g., NetRadio went out of business before the royalty rates were even announced thus denying record companies and artists in the millions of dollars). For the others, you claim that most are using Shoutcast or other free software. But they still must be either paying for bandwidth costs that would generally exceed their royalties, or having someone like live365 pay on their behalf. Live365 participated in the CARP proceeding (and actually hired two different high-priced law firms to represent them!). In the proceeding, live365 submitted evidence demonstrating how their costs for bandwidth, employment, sales and marketing, and hardware and software were many, many times their revenues."

"We understand that hobbyists are different. We are prepared and intend to work with true hobbyists to find a solution."

Newsbytes Privacy Concerns Raised Over Digital Music Proposal
"Proposed federal regulations that would standardize the way in which Internet broadcasters pay royalties for the songs they play could jeopardize the anonymity of online music listeners, according to some privacy advocates."

"According to the Copyright Office, each Listener's Log would include information about which users were accessing which songs online. The logs would also include information about when users were listening and from where."

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