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IANAL, but.... I suspect that if a station only played submissions and insisted that such submissions came with a release of rights with respect to Internet broadcast, then that station would presumably be in the clear with respect to royalties. I don't know whether the submission itself could be considered an agreement to those terms, but it probably ought to be possible to set things up that way. So, assuming this passed muster with an entertainment lawyer, then I could envisage a system whereby stations register themselves as being interested only in broadcast-royalty free music and thereby gain access to a library of musician/small-label submitted material. I could even envisage terms whereby the stations need to provide playlists such that listeners can link back to where they could purchase the music. What the webcasting royalties shut down then would be the all Britney Spears, all the time station. Or that station needs to make enough in advertising revenue to cover it's royalty costs. True, this means that I'll probably never get to hear a radio station segue from Britney Spears into Ted Killian's "Leaving Medford" but that's a loss I think I can live with. Mark on 6/22/02 3:44 PM, Paul Weissman at paul@nioterra.com wrote: > 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.