Re: CARP Passed - This sucks!

["Stephen P. Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 23:44 PM
Subject: RE: CARP Passed - This sucks!


>
> but how can you guarantee that music being played on your internet radio
> station ISN'T affiliated with BMI/ASCAP?
>
> in order to to run a station like this you'd have to accept mp3s/cds from
> artists who want you to play their music.  what if some people (maybe 
>even
> the record companies themselves) decide to pass you material that is
> actually covered by BMI/ASCAP?  all they have to do is monitor your
station,
> wait for a song of theirs to come up and all of a sudden you're in
> litigation.
>
> i have no idea if this is actually how the law works, but it's a thought.

I think not, if you had as part of your agreement with people uploading 
that
the material wasn't subject to processing by such organizations.  Think
about how Eno lets public TV / BBC use his material.  It's registered, but
there's an agreement for use.  That's all there needs to be.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: matt davignon [mailto:mattdavignon@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:27 AM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: re: CARP Passed - This sucks!
> >
> >
> > Now here's a question:
> >
> > Can a streaming radio station exist by playing only songs of consenting
> > artists and labels who are not affiliated with BMI/ASCAP?
> >
> > There are enough good non-major-label artists who actually want
> > their music
> > to be heard to fill a huge number of stations in any genre, and
> > I'd like to
> > think there's a large enough audience that would be interested in
hearing
> > stuff that they don't already hear on the radio.
> >
> > I think the reason that the major labels made the effort to
> > squash internet
> > radio is that they feared they would no longer have control of all the
> > channels necessary to convince John Q. Average-American that the bands
> > marketed by them are the only ones worth hearing. That's why they 
>didn't
> > make effort to charge the same rate to broadcast radio stations. 95% of
> > broadcast radio stations exclusively play major-label material.
> >
> > Anyway, it would be nice if we could turn this into a case of the 
>majors
> > shooting themselves in the foot. Wouldn't it be great if we said,
> > "Ok, well
> > since you're being such an asshole about it, we'll only play music by
> > artists/labels who are in it for the art and community from now on."
> >
> > Matt
> >
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