

Increased royalty fees may force some internet radio stations to shut down











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RE: Chicken little
By Hawkido on 7/16/2007 1:03:07 PM , Rating: 2
If you compose, play, and record your own music, you're free to play it on your radio station without having to pay anyone anything.

Actually, if you read all the bills the RIAA has in flight. one of them states a universal inescapable royalty fee they wish to charge of anyone who plays any song (their own included) and you have to pay the royalty collection agency they set up (sourceforge?) to get the royalties for the song you wrote, recorded, and broadcast over a medium you paid for.

Keep this in mind: They want independant publications dead. If not dead they want independant publications to pay the established music industry for their own survival. Either you die or you pay them for something they have NO RIGHT to collect from you. Next legislators will use the laws put in effect by RIAA to attack free speech by charging royalties on talk radio, and internet talk-radio (the printing press of the internet age).

RE: Chicken little
By Hawkido on 7/17/2007 2:42:38 PM , Rating: 2
Sound Exchange not sourceforge... LOL Where'd I get SourceForge?

RE: Chicken little
By wordsworm on 7/18/2007 9:45:53 PM , Rating: 2
I see what you're saying. But it's not SoundExchange. The idea that they're putting forth is almost unbelievably reasonable. Certainly the artists should have some revenue from the webcasts. It's not just service providers renting out bandwidth that should be making a profit. The artists deserve something too, contrary to what I've inferred from RaisedinUS. The RIAA is a much different animal. I agree with you 100% about them.

