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Many of you know, or have read about, the major label demand that webcasters pay an extremely high royalty rate on the music they're playing - retroactive to 1998. College webcasting sources say a small station with 2 or 3 employees and 1000 listeners would owe $500,000 in licensing fees if the new rates go into effect.
As a musician who's received internet radio play, and hopes to continue to do so in the future, this threatens one of the best avenues for independent musician radio play that I have available to me. Whether or not you're aware of it, independent musicians are rallying together to squash this. And soon. Because the deadline is May 21st.
From Suzanne Glass of indie-music.com:
Our position at Indie-Music.com is that musicians deserve the new performance royalty (and more). But if the royalty puts out of business the very stations we depend on, it's a net loss, not a gain.
Exactly.
Now, I've been a member of CD Baby a long time, and Derek Sivers, the man behind it all, has always been on top of things. Let me share bits from an email he sent out today:
Most webcasters (as they're called) are just hobbyists: music fans with a broadband connection, who play their favorite music to the world. It's wonderful. Shoutcast lets anyone do that for free. So do Live365.com and other webcasting tools.
Most of them are entirely non-commercial. No ads. No real reason to do what they're doing except they want to play great music to the world. I wish all radio was like that.
[...]
READ THIS: http://www.saveinternetradio.org/pressroom.asp
That link says it much better than I could.All musicians should be VERY concerned. Because right now there are THOUSANDS of cool stations that could be playing YOUR music. But in 2 weeks, there might be NONE LEFT except a few Big Giant Corporate-Owned Stations which won't play anything except music by other Big Giant Companies paying them lots of money. (And now you see another reason why the major labels wanted the higher rate! So they could go back to dominating it!)
Anyway - YOU HAVE TWO WEEKS TO STOP THIS - AND IT JUST MIGHT BE STOPPABLE! PLEASE PLEASE TAKE 5 MINUTES THIS WEEK TO FOLLOW THE SUGGESTIONS HERE: http://www.saveinternetradio.org/
Make sure you scroll down one page on that site, to where it says #2 A+B: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: Find contact information, and deliver your message.
[...]
It IS still changeable if enough of us make a stink.
IF YOU DO THIS, and there is still good independent web radio on May 22nd, then I'm going to make CD Baby a place that helps get your music to all the great webcasters out there so they can play it to the world.
Deal?
P.S. MORE INFO:
http://www.futureofmusic.org/CARPfactsheet.cfm
http://electronics.cnet.com/electronics/0-3219397-8-9777792-1.html
MUSICIANS: Radioio.com is also collecting the letter below to be distributed to senators and power brokers in Washington, D.C. Copy and paste it, add your info, and send it in an email to xrisie@radioio.com. Your name and address must be filled out for Radioio to accept the letter. They also ask that you do not edit or change the body of this letter. If you have personal comments or issues, the place to wax poetic is at saveinternetradio.org.
We join together, as independent artists and recording labels, to show our deep concern that the CARP recommended Internet Radio sound recording performance and reproduction royalty rate is so high, and the recommended recordkeeping requirements are so extensive, that it will severely impact Internet Radio's ability to survive, and thus destroy a fledgling industry with tremendous potential to help independent artists and recording labels promote our music.One of the best sources today for exposing independent artist and
label music to the public is through Internet Radio webcasters, who
are much more open to playing independent music than terrestrial
radio. The consolidation of large terrestrial radio stations has
substantially narrowed the diversity of musical genres available to
the public, and has made it increasingly difficult for independent
artists and record labels to get airplay on terrestrial AM/FM radio.
Therefore, Internet Radio has become a primary source of
promotion for independent artists and labels. Each and every time
Internet Radio webcasters play our songs, more people become
aware of our music, and more people buy our recordings,
merchandise, and tickets to our concerts.We appreciate that as independent artists and record labels, we will
finally be compensated financially for our sound performances
through the sound recording performance royalty. We applaud
Congress for creating this opportunity for us - an opportunity
enjoyed by artists throughout the rest of the world. However, we fear
that the ultimate result of the performance royalty fee as proposed,
will be consolidation of the Internet Radio industry to those few large
corporate webcasters who can afford the high rate. Smaller Internet
Radio webcasters will be forced out of business, and independent
artists and recording labels will lose a major source of exposure and
promotion. Plus we'll lose the financial compensation from
songwriting royalty fees we currently receive, and performance
royalty fees we would have received from those webcasters.For these reasons, we ask you to support sound recording
performance rates and recordkeeping requirements that are fair and
equitable to all parties involved. We sincerely hope that the
decisions made by the Library of Congress will allow all Internet
Radio webcasters to grow and flourish, and in turn, continue to be a
source of promotion and financial compensation for independent
artists and record labels such as ourselves.Signed:
ARTISTS
name:
company:
address:
city/state/zip
country:
telephone:
fax:
email:
This is really important shit, people. If you're a musician or music lover, visit saveinternetradio.com and do your part. And musicians, please, email the letter above to Radioio.com. If you don't, come May 22nd, the blame rests, at least in part, with you.
what really shits me is that some stupid rule/law in the U States can fuck it up for everyone the world over.
how dare the US tell me what I can and cant broadcast in Australia.
Just because its the internet, and the US think they own it.
hmph
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Posted by: timmy at May 7, 2002 04:50 PM